Lobster caught in Massachusetts is ready for Halloween
BOSTON (AP) - A Massachusetts fisherman has caught a creepy-looking lobster that's colored to match Halloween.
The New England Aquarium says the 1-pound female lobster has an orange side and a black side, with the colors split perfectly down the middle.
Marine officials say such coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally colored crustacean in a trap last week is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of Boston.
The rare lobster is known as a split. Aquarium officials said Wednesday splits have been caught in Maine, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia in the last 10 years.
The New England Aquarium says the 1-pound female lobster has an orange side and a black side, with the colors split perfectly down the middle.
Marine officials say such coloration is estimated to occur once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally colored crustacean in a trap last week is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of Boston.
The rare lobster is known as a split. Aquarium officials said Wednesday splits have been caught in Maine, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia in the last 10 years.
We should do a taste test to see if each side tastes different too!
This lobster should run for office, since he can obviously see both sides of the issues!
The lobster is sooooooperfect that they are going to use it as a t-square
Is this where that saying "once you black you'll never go back" came from?
Good thing it got picked up last week before Sandy hit.
 @WendyTeagarden Yep, we wouldn't want it to go uneaten! Swimbad love's Lobster!
@swimbad I'll bring the butter and the bib
the boiling pot....
@WendyTeagarden I have the pot and the burner.....
I don't believe it; there is some trickery involved. A straight line is as uncommon in nature as a shiny object and extremely rare in biology. Total hoax employing a photo shop filter across half the image.
 @Icarus Actually, a straight-line split (aka "bilateral") does happen naturally in many arthropods and even other animals like birds, I've personally seen it happen with some insects, either having a perfect split of two color morphs, or even a perfect split of male on one side and female on the other (aka: "gynandromorph" ... Google it).Â
I am seeing a new kids TV show, Gynandromorphing Power Rangers ;-)
 @Morpho  @Icarus Calico cats frequently have half of the face black and half orange, it happens, and this isn't the first lobster like this they've posted a story about, i've seen others, probably 1 every 2 or 3 years
 @Morpho  @Icarus So far the only time this has not occurred is in Humans? or, am I wrong in this?
@lee986321 @Morpho @Icarus I was gonna go there but I won't.
Beverly... hrm... Orange and Black..... Bev... Beav... BEAVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Peregrine GO DEVILS! You're not the only ticked off team.