With the latest donation of a rare “cotton candy claws” lobster, the menagerie of colorful crustaceans at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center in Nahant continues to grow, thanks to donations from lobster boat captains and a Marblehead fishmonger.
The collection also includes an electric blue lobster and an orange and black freckled crustacean known as a calico. Believed to occur no more than once in a million, the lobsters’ presence in Nahant testifies to conservancy efforts among those that capture and harvest the crustaceans and their faith in the science center’s ability to house them safely, said Sierra Munoz, outreach program coordinator at the Marine Science Center.
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