Rare Lobsters, Two-Toned and Blue Species (Photo, Video)

Rare blue lobster
Credit: YouTube video grab

Two rare lobsters were caught in just one week! How lucky was that a two-toned and blue lobster species were out in the open seas during the last week of August?

Rare two-toned lobster
Credit: Ship to Shore Lobster Co./Handout
A two-toned lobster was caught off Maine by Jeff Edwards of Owl’s Head while a blue lobster was netted off Cape Cod in Massachusetts by Ben Hogan on Thursday, August 30, 2013. The two-toned lobster was reportedly colored orange and brown.

The extraordinary lobsters were believed to be just one in two million for the blue and one in 50 million for the two-toned specie.

According to Gulf of Maine Research Institute's Alan Lishness, the rare colored lobsters "looked as if someone had taken painter’s tape and run it from proboscis to tail, then spray-painted one side. It’s a perfectly straight line. You don’t usually see such hard edges in nature.”

American lobsters are usually colored brownish-green.

Experts say that the unusual color of the newly caught lobsters can be attributed to genetic defect that cause too much production of a particular protein.

The two-toned lobster was reportedly sent to local fisherman's wharf, Ship to Shore Lobster Co. It was later donated to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.

Below is a capecast YouTube video of the blue lobster.