'Biscuit': The rare lobster that was saved by a restaurant
A rare lobster was saved from being eaten at a restaurant recently after they found out that this lobster was so rare, it was one-in-30-million.
When you hear 'lobster', what is the first thing that you think about?
We think about Sebastian from Disney's 'The Little Mermaid', although Sebastian is a crab, but he kind of resembles a lobster...
But when we think about lobster we rarely think about it being rare...
However, there are rare types of lobster and recently one was saved before being eaten at a restaurant.
"Employees at a Mississippi Red Lobster chose to spoil the boil after discovering a 1-in-30 million lobster with rare orange coloration." (Washington Times)
Orange lobsters are said to have a "a 1-in-30 million chance of existing", but the influx of recent discoveries have officials at the aquarium questioning this statistic.
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Interestingly enough, lobsters obtain their colour from the pigmentation from the foods they eat. "Biscuit", the name of the one-in-30-million lobster that was recently discovered, was donated to Ripley’s Aquarium of the Rockies in Tennessee.
WATCH the video below of Biscuit, courtesy of Instagram:
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Another rare orange lobster who was found in mid-July was also rescued and is also doing well at a Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Check out a video of him thriving below, courtesy of Instagram:
Below is the news footage of another rare lobster that passed on this year after being saved.
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