20 December 2011

Tuesday Crustie: White Christmas


We should call it, “Snowball.”

You can read the story of this remarkably coloured lobster on BBC. Al Dove made a correction on Twitter:

Albinism in lobsters is not related to melanin; that's a mammal thing. Lobster pigments are all carotenoids.

For more, see his explanation here.


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