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Fisherman Catches 2-Tone, Gender-Bending Lobster

Posted by Hemos on from the wonderful-evolution dept.

sbowles writes "A lobster fisherman out of Halifax Nova Scotia has caught a 2-coloured hermaphrodite lobster. The ocean oddity is a first for Murray Townsend and his crew. 'I've seen lobsters of different colours, shades and with different markings, but nothing quite like this.' The animal has been donated to the Bedford Institute of Oceanography."

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  1. How... by jangobongo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is it genetically possible to have a creature that is blue/female on one side and grayish-green/male on the other side? That seems impossible to me. Have there been any other examples in the animal world showing such a split?

    I was expecting someone here to say, "That wee beastie got a little to close too the nuclear power plant" or some such.

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    1. Re: How... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Interesting


      > Sorry I don't have a reference, I was reading this a few months ago and was really surprised.

      chimera

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