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'Because she's so bright, she's very vulnerable to predators,' Montoya said. In Boston and the National Aquarium in Baltimore have also expressed interest in housing Eve, along with a few others outside of the US, Montoya said.īut putting her back in the ocean wouldn't be the safest thing to do. , which bills itself as the largest in the country. He was discovered among a delivery of lobster from.

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'The possibility of caring for such a unique and rare animal, plus being able to potentially share that with our guests, is something we would be very excited to do,' said Jessica Fontana, director of communications at the Georgia Aquarium Our speckly star, Freckles, is what’s known as a calico lobster, characterized by a body that’s covered in dark blue and bright orange spots. In a press release, Ocean City Seafood said Eve will be donated to an aquarium - possibly the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, although plans haven't been finalized yet. We're looking into all of the options,' Montoya said. Above are a regular-colored lobster at left, and the calico lobster at right. Montoya said Eve is waiting in a special tank at the market while they decide what to do next. While calico lobsters are extremely rare, the chances of finding an albino lobster are even rarer - one in 100 million.

In Baltimore and learned just how special Eve was.Īmerican lobsters can be blue, yellow, split-colored, or even albino, according to the University of Maine's Lobster Institute Later he reached out to the National Aquarium Nicholas determined the lobster was female and gave her a name. 'He didn't know why she was special,' said Rita Montoya, a spokeswoman for the market. One of the specimens is bright blue, another is calico-hued. The owner of the Ocean City Seafood market in Silver Spring, Maryland, who wants to be identified only as Nicholas, didn't want to send the crustacean to a restaurant to become someone's dinner. Three lobsters have been hauled in from the depths of the sea, and are causing quite a stir. The odds of catching one are about one in 30 million It turned out to be a rare calico lobster. That is exactly what happened in Manassas, Virginia when a calico lobster was. The owner of a fish market in suburban Washington was sifting through his daily seafood delivery from Maine in late December when he came across a curious find: a lobster with a speckled, orange-and-black shell. A 1-in-30 Million Calico Lobster Was Discovered at a Red Lobster in Virginia 'Freckles' has since been donated to the Virginia Living Museum. Specialties: Calico Lobster Company is a family owned offshore lobstering fleet operating out of Cape Cod, MA. People love seafood, but when you go to Red Lobster, one of the items that. Now instead of a lobster pot she's going to live in an aquarium. They then transported Freckles to the museum in Newport News, the museum said in a press release Tuesday.He spared her life and named her Eve. On April 29, two Virginia Living Museum employees traveled to Manassas and collected the lobster from the restaurant tank. “We hope Freckles brings lots of joy to guests of the museum and lives a long and wonderful life,” the spokesperson said. The owner of a fish market in suburban Washington was sifting through his daily seafood delivery from Maine in late December when he came across a curious find: a lobster with a speckled. The only lobsters more rare than the calico are split-colored lobsters, at 1 in 50 million, and 'crystal' or albino lobsters, at 1 in 100 million, according to the institute.

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“Because a calico-colored lobster is so rare and vulnerable in the wild, it was important that we found him a good home versus setting him free in the wild where he likely would not survive.” Calico lobsters so rare that the chances of finding them alive are about 1 in 30 million, according to the University of Maine's Lobster Institute. “Calico-colored lobsters like Freckles are so rare because their coloring makes them very visible and thus vulnerable to predators,” the Red Lobster spokesperson said. To provide the lobster with a safe home, the restaurant reached out to officials at the Akron Zoo who connected them with the Virginia Living Museum, where Freckles will now live.

A rare yellow lobster, named Banana, has been caught off the coast of MaineĬalico lobsters are the third rarest lobsters in the world, preceded by split-colored and albino lobsters, the spokesperson said, adding that the chance of catching a calico is 1 in 30 million.