Nadia Stewart, visitor experience facilitator for Dalhousie's Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity, said the offer was potentially life-saving.
"We're so happy that they think of us when they do find a cool lobster 'cause in the wild they often get predated upon very quickly just because of their standout colours," she said.
Stewart said Oscar's mutation occurs in about one out of every 50 million lobster.
"When two of these fertilized unlaid eggs come in contact with each other, it actually causes one to absorb the other, so this creates Oscar, our lobster with two different sets of ... genetic information," she said.
14 Comments
can@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 43d
Wow, probably should have been sent to an aquarium.
LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml · 33 pts · 43d
raspirate@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 43d
I like it much better with the last 2 frames included.
can@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 43d
otter@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 43d
Neat
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 43d
A chimera!
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 43d
Harvey Dent: We KILL the Batman
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
More like Slade Wilson.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 43d
in the florida keys
theres a place called kokomo
thats where you want to go
to get chimera lobsters
can@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 42d
Mmm
bad1080@piefed.social · 5 pts · 43d
i bet i know how it takes its coffee
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 43d
Released eh? Seeing is believing.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d
MMM BP Deep Water Lobster
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 42d
Amazing.