A Red Lobster in Virginia found a rare lobster among their captive crustaceans.
According to CNN, staff members noted one live lobster adorned with orange and black freckles. This surprise lobster happened to be a rare Calico.
Meet Freckles, an ultra-rare (1-in-30M) Calico lobster discovered at one of our Virginia locations! We donated this cool crustacean to the Virginia
Living Museum, where we hope he lives a long and wonderful life. pic.twitter.com/5zlYCXZRDP
— Red Lobster (@redlobster) May 5, 2021
This particular diamond-in-the-rough found its way into a shipment of lobsters delivered to the Manassas eatery on April 25; it arrived by way of the country’s proverbial lobster capital, Maine.
Once the restaurant’s staff took note of the little guy’s distinctive pattern, they reached out to the Akron Zoo for advice. The experts there eventually directed them to the (much closer) Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, VA. The organization has since adopted the calico lobster—dubbed Freckles—and given him a permanent, predator-free home on site.
The National Geographic averages calico lobsters at around one in 40 million. That said, calico ranks only as the third rarest variety of lobster.
Happy this little freckled guy found a home.
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