Meet Jackie, a 1-in-30-Million Calico Lobster Caught Off the Coast of Massachusetts

Now living at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, the striking crustacean has a bright orange shell with black freckles and blue joints

Smithsonian Magazine

Marine copepod are small aquatic crustaceans.

Photograph: Zachary Sanchez/Nikon Small World

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"Over the ClawsWay"
Teableau for 10/08/25

Where crabs walk sideways and lobsters walk straight.

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@sarahmackattack.bsky.social‬ shared the text and video below

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away.

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I seriously spent too long on whether it should be

autistic crustaceans

or

crustaceans with autism

but then realized it's entirely hypothetical so no crustaceans would be harmed in the making of the toot

#autism #crustaceans