Just three months after a cotton candy lobster was caught off the coast of Maine , another Maine resident has stagger in one of the rarefied , colorful creatures .
Kim HartleytoldWMTW that her married man caught the cotton confect lobster off Cape Rosier in Penobscot Bay — and it ’s not his first time . Four class ago , he caught another one , which he donated to an aquarium in Connecticut . While the Hartleys decide what to do with their pretty newfangled foster pet , it ’s relaxing in a crate on land .
Though the chances of finding a cotton candy lobster are supposedly one in 100 million , Maine seems to be fawn with the polychrome crustaceans . Luckythe lobster gained quite a cult following on social media after being catch near Canada ’s Grand Manan Island ( near to the Canada - Maine borderline ) last summertime , and Portland restaurantScalescame across one during the same season . you’re able to see a telecasting of the discovery in Maine from last August below :
harmonize toNational Geographic , these lobster ’ cotton confect - colored shells could be the event of a genetical mutant , or they could be related to what they ’re eating . lobster get their usual greenish - blue chromaticity whencrustacyanin — a protein they grow — flux with astaxanthin , a bright ruddy carotenoid found in their diet . But if the lobster are n’t eating their usual astaxanthin - copious transportation like crabs and shrimp , the lack of pigment could give them a pastel appearing . It ’s possible that the cotton confect lobsters have been relying on fishermen ’s decoy as their principal food source , rather than discover their own .
While these vivacious specimen may await more beautiful than their dull - shell relative , even regular lobsters are nerveless than you think — find out 25 fascinating facts about themhere .
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