When it comes to the animal kingdom, there is a huge amount of diversity. This goes even further when you start looking at all of the creatures in the sea. When you start delving into the world of aquatic life, it’s easy to feel a sense of wonder and start to have a thirst for curiosity. There is just so much magical wildlife in our oceans and waterways that it boggles the mind. A couple of years ago, a fisherman named Robinson Russell was able to see something that very few if any human beings will ever see in the wild.
Russell was fishing one day when he caught a “cotton candy” lobster in his nets. He said in his more than 20 years of fishing, this is the first one he’s ever seen. He named the lobster “Lucky” because he knew what he had to do: save Lucky’s life. Russell released the gorgeous crustacean to the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in New Brunswick in Canada. Russell had been fishing off of the country’s Grand Manan Island when he caught Lucky along with a bunch of other lobsters. Lucky is blue and pink and seems to shimmer in the light, he’s just that beautiful. And Lucky is the perfect name for him.
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The center shared a photo of Lucky on their Facebook page and the photos quickly started to go viral. The researchers at the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute said that a lobster the color that Lucky is will occur only once in 100 million lobsters, which makes Lucky just as rare as an albino lobster. In other words, a lobster like Lucky will surface about once every four to five years. When you think about how much lobster fishing goes on every day around the world, it’s easy to see that this is a very rare occurrence indeed. It’s even more rare for someone to turn their catch over to a foundation.
Lucky’s coloring is caused by a genetic mutation that changes the pigments in Lucky’s shell. Most lobsters are brown or grey, and they turn red when they’re boiled. However, other colors have been spotted in the wild, including bright orange, yellow, and even blue lobsters. Fortunately, Lucky gets to have an easy life in captivity. Watch the news video below.
