Another rare lobster is making a splash at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant.
The brilliantly colored orange and black lobster is called a calico, and the odds of catching one are believed to be only one in 30 million, says Sierra Munoz, outreach program coordinator at the Marine Science Center.
That makes the female lobster — whom Munoz’s children named Jackie, short for Jack O’Lantern — even more rare than the recently arrived blue lobster Neptune, whose coloration is about one in 2 million.
Like Neptune, Jackie was caught off the coast of Massachusetts, this time by Mike Tufts, a lobsterman who operates out of Gloucester.
“One day he 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,” Munoz says.
“I said, ‘Of course we do,’” Munoz says. “It’s such a thoughtful—and fun—donation to our science education program.”
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Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University
