Rare 1-in-20-million calico lobster makes her spooky debut

Rare Calico Lobster Makes Debut

A rare 1-in-20-million calico lobster, named Jackie, has made her debut at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts.

Jackie owes her unique colors to a mixture of chemical compounds, making her a seasonal ambassador for Halloween, alongside spiders, bats, and oozing fungi.

Jackie is a calico lobster and the odds of catching a crustacean like this are about one-in-20 million

According to Sierra Munoz, Marine Science Center outreach coordinator, Jackie is even more rare than Neptune the blue lobster, with odds of one-in-two million.

Author's summary: Rare calico lobster debuts at Marine Science Center.

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