Rare 6-Clawed Lobster

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.

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

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