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TrulyReconciled (original poster member #3031) posted at 5:22 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
... Meet Lola 
CNN) -- There's always another strange crustacean out there somewhere.
There are blue lobsters and yellow lobsters. Something on YouTube called a Japanese mitten lobster. Giant cannibal shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico and supergiant albino shrimplike creatures off New Zealand.
Then there's Lola. The six-clawed lobster showed up at the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor last week, a gift from Capt. Peter Brown and lobsterman Richard Figueiredo of the fishing vessel Rachael Leah, which hauled in the hexa-clawed creature off the coast of Massachusetts.
Weighing in at four pounds, Lola has a normal claw on her right side, but on the left has five smaller claws, arranged sort of like the five fingers of a human hand.
"This claw deformity is a genetic mutation," Aimee Hayden-Roderiques, manager of the aquarium, told CNN affiliate WMTW-TV. "Sometimes they have this throughout their life, sometimes this happens during a regeneration from a damaged or lost claw."
Hayden-Roderiques said Lola will soon be on display with some of those other strange lobsters, the blue ones, the yellow ones and even half-and-half colored ones.
"We're kind of the place for unusual lobsters," she told the Bangor Daily News. "Everyone who comes in wants to see the weird lobsters."
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gahurts ( member #33699) posted at 5:44 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
but on the left has five smaller claws, arranged sort of like the five fingers of a human hand
She's evolving in to a lobster-human hybrid. That should make for a good late night movie to be watched with copious amounts of alcohol.
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broken2 ( member #16935) posted at 5:54 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
I agree with gahurts, late night movie, with copious amounts of alcohol!
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TrulyReconciled (original poster member #3031) posted at 6:06 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
... not to mention lemon butter ... 
"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."
StillGoing ( member #28571) posted at 6:07 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
COME AT ME BRO
WE SHALL DO BATTLE
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 8:55 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Yummy. 
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SuperDuperWonderboy ( member #34716) posted at 9:35 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
My Friends call me Wonderboy--That's Mr. SuperduperWonderboy to you Tred.
broken2 ( member #16935) posted at 9:35 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Oh, and some lemon with that butter,...please. 
TrulyReconciled (original poster member #3031) posted at 10:15 PM on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
StillGoing - Pay attention!! That water is supposed to be BOILING, dammit ...
"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."
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