Restaurants & Bars

Rare Blue Lobster Ends Up At Cape Cod Restaurant

The odds of finding the colorful crustacean? One in 2 million.

The rare blue lobster was shipped to Arnold's Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham.
The rare blue lobster was shipped to Arnold's Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham. (Nathan Nickerson III/Arnold's )

EASTHAM, MA — A rare blue lobster was shipped to a seafood restaurant on Cape Cod. The crustacean was among a shipment Arnold's Lobster & Clam Bar in Eastham received last week.

"Well looky here—a BLUE lobster!" the restaurant wrote on Facebook. The odds of finding a blue lobster are one in 2 million, according to the Maine Lobsterman's Community Alliance, which says yellow and white lobsters are even rarer.

The restaurant is inviting people to come and see the lobster. It plans to donate it to an aquarium or put it back in the ocean.

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