10 interesting facts about lobsters
- Lobster can have many different colors, including blue-green, blue, red, yellow, red-orange and white.
- The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 42 lb (19 kg), caught in 1934.
- Lobsters usually move around and hunt for food at night.Researchers have discovered that lobsters catch mainly fresh food which includes fish, crabs, clams, mussels, sea urchins, and sometimes even other lobsters,
- A lobster has 19 body parts and each of them is covered by a section of its tough shell.
- A young, immature lobster (first 5-7 years) will molt about 25 times a year.
- Lobster blood is a clear fluid. When the animal is boiled, the blood turns to an opaque whitish gel. It has no discernible flavor and is perfectly safe to eat.
- Lobsters are an incredibly healthy, low cholesterol food, which has fewer calories and saturated fats than both chicken and turkey.
- Only a few of the hundreds of types of lobster are caught commercially.
- Lobsters are long-lived animals, and are thought to be capable of living over 100 years.
- Female lobsters carry their eggs under their abdomens for up to a year before releasing them as larvae into the water.
