WESTBORO, MASS. (WHDH) - An extremely rare lobster was recently discovered at a grocery store in Westborough.
Roche Brothers posted a photo of the orange-colored crustacean on Facebook last week.
A genetic anomaly can cause 1 in every 10 million lobsters to be orange, blue, calico, or white, the grocery store noted.
The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine estimates that orange lobsters occur naturally at an incidence of in 1 in 30 million.
Roche Brothers donated the lobster to the New England Aquarium in Boston.
“This lobster is most likely in the 7-9-year-old range, and he is a wily character to have reached that age given his day-glo appearance in the briny, dark depths of the North Atlantic,” the New England Aquarium said in a press release. “With that color, he is flashing a neon sign to many large fish predators, so he deserves much credit to have survived.”
The lobster will either be incorporated in a future exhibit or be sent to an aquarium in Japan.
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