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"Photo in the News: Lobster Caught "Half Cooked" in Maine July 20, 2006—Batman fans will remember Two-Face, the villain with a mug that's half handsome and half gruesome. Recently a Maine lobsterman caught a different kind of two-faced prey—a lobster that looks half raw and half cooked. Alan Robinson of Steuben, Maine, hauled up this two-toned lobster last week while bringing in his catch near the town of Bar Harbor (see Maine map). Half of the animal is mottled brown, while the other is bright orange—the color lobsters turn after they've been boiled. In his 20 years of catching the crustaceans, Robinson says, he has never seen anything like it. "I thought someone was playing a trick on me," he told the Bangor Daily News. "Once I saw what it was … it was worth seeing." He wanted others to see it, too, so Robinson donated his unusual catch to Maine's Mount Desert Oceanarium, where experts were able to shed some light on the find. Two-toned lobsters, they explain, are rare but not unheard of. The shells of American, or Maine, lobsters usually sport a combination of yellow, red, and blue pigments. But the animals grow symmetrically, with each half of the body developing independently of the other. In the case of Robinson's catch, half of the lobster's shell was lacking the blue pigment, giving it the appearance of having been cooked to a turn. All this makes Robinson's fifty-fifty find one for the record books, the Oceanarium's staffers say. The aquarium has received only three two-toned lobsters in 35 years, they note, and the odds of finding one that's exactly half and half is about 1 in 50 million. "

[Edited on March 30, 2008 at 5:51 PM. Reason : ]

3/30/2008 5:50:51 PM

i was waiting for this to come around

3/30/2008 5:51:29 PM

3/30/2008 5:51:56 PM

Neat how each side of their body matures independent of the other.

3/30/2008 5:53:49 PM

yea, it is cool

like Two-Face cool

3/30/2008 5:55:01 PM

PHOTOSHOP

3/30/2008 5:56:09 PM

ha ha I like it

didn't lobsters used to be poor people food? now they're all high class

3/30/2008 5:57:15 PM

yup, they were poor people's food.

3/30/2008 5:58:02 PM

You guys should learn how to dive. You can grab huge lobsters while you're diving, if you're in the right spot at the right time. HUGE lobsters. They're not the standard ones with the big claws (american lobsters), rather, the ones off the NC coast are spiny lobsters.

3/30/2008 5:59:53 PM

and you can just eat them? you don't need a fishing license or anything?

3/30/2008 6:04:13 PM

I believe there is a daily limit but I'm not 100% sure. I'll have to check that when the offshore season kicks in. I've never gotten one (haven't done too many offshore dives) but that will change this summer....

I would LOVE to come home with a lobster this size (note: not me in the picture, it's a guy I know -- got the lobster off the NC coast)

3/30/2008 6:07:15 PM