"One day, [Tufts] sent me a message with a picture of this beautiful calico and asked if we had room in our tanks for another beautiful, rare lobster,"
"In the calico lobster, the astaxanthin combines with other pigments and proteins in a really unique way that gives her this really rare kind of mottled or freckled look,"
"The odds of catching a calico lobster are estimated to be about 1 in 30 million."
A Gloucester fisherman caught and donated a female calico lobster named Jackie to Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant. The lobster displays an estimated 1-in-30-million orange-and-black calico coloration. Calico coloration results from a mix of chemical compounds, including astaxanthin, combining with other pigments and proteins to produce a mottled or freckled appearance. Jackie is primarily orange and black with yellow spots and blue at her joints. Jackie will be housed separately from a blue calico lobster named Neptune because lobsters can be territorial. Both lobsters could live more than 100 years if they avoid viruses and ailments.
Read at Boston.com
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