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 kinds 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 this 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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