Lobsters are turning into humans.
Maybe.
So check this out guys
Look at this picture of this claw
Now look at my hand
Now back to the claw
Now look at my hand
Now look at the claw
Now look at my hand
Are they turning into us?
Just kidding
Actually, this is a six-claw
lobster named Lola
and she's beautiful just the way she is.
Lola was captured in Massachusetts.
She's about 10 years old
and weighs 4 pounds.
Last week, she was donated to
the Maine State Aquarium
where she'll be able to hang out
with some other friends of her caliber.
This aquarium has two other lobsters
with deformed claws
but nothing as amazing as Lola.
So how did this deformity happen?
Well there's two ways
Either she was born with it which
makes it a result of genetic mutation
Or she was in some crazy
lobster fight club
and she lost her claw, and it grew back
this way through regeneration
which would make her the
newest member of the X-Men
Sorry, I mean the X lobsters
The super sea creatures
I reach out to Amy Hayden Rodri,
the aquarium manager of
the maine state aquarium
and this is what she told me
about lobster regeneration
While some lobsters can be born with
these kind of deformities,
many of them have this happen
when they have lost a limb
and are trying to regenerate
The genetic 'message' sent
sometimes gets skewed or replicated,
resulting in extra sets of claws,
or in the case of 'Lola' extra 'fingers'
She also says that she has never seen
anything like this before
and the meat of the lobster should not
be affected by their deformity
And I'm feeling very hungry
so pass the butter
No, I'm kidding, I'd never eat a lobster.
They look like aliens. They're aliens.
Lobsters are aliens.
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