The Metropolis

Blue lobster saved from boily death by its own beauty

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 9 November, 2011 17:44

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Here you will find a picture of an electric blue lobster which was being prepared for sale at Billingsgate fish market. Its colour saved its life. Perhaps the whole episode is meant as a parable for good race relations. Anyway, if I were a lobster, I would want to look like this.

Source: Natural History Musuem

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