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.

All right guys, that's it for this episode.

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