A Maine lobsterman recently hauled a two-toned lobster out of the ocean.
The odds of finding such a symmetrical lobster is about one in 50 million, not quite as high as the odds of winning the lottery, but close enough, Reuters reported.
"We've had blue ones and calico ones, but we'd never seen anything like this," co-owner of Ship to Shore Lobster Co, Anna Mason, told Reuters.
The lobster is far more rare than the blue and yellow specimens that sometimes pop up along the Maine coast, but one is twice as likely to catch this two-toned fellow than an ultra-rare albino.
Lobster are usually a greenish-brown color, and don't become red until they are boiled, but this one was very different.
"It looked as if someone had taken painter's tape and run it from proboscis to tail, then spray-painted one side. It's a perfectly straight line," Alan Lishness, of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, told Reuters. "You don't usually see such hard edges in nature."
The unusual lobster was photographed and donated to the research institute, which has a number of child education programs.
"This one just stops people in their tracks," Lishnessm said. "Even people who've seen thousands of lobsters just can't believe it."
In 2011 an albino lobster named Santa Claws was found in a U.K lobster pot, he was only the third albino found in the U.K in the previous 20 years, the Daily Mail reported.
Santa is believed to be an impressive 30 years old, the fisherman who caught the pearly-white crustacean said he hadn't seen anything like it in at least 40 years.
"If he has been an albino from birth it's incredible that he hasn't been snaffled by a hungry shark, seal or perhaps even an otter," Sea Life curator Fiona Smith told the Daily Mail.
Santa's condition is characterized by a total lack of melanin, a color pigment in the flesh.
