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Caught about a year ago off the coast of Massachusetts and led immediately to the New England Aquarium for further examination and investigation …! The female lobster that you see is one of the most curious and rare sea creatures in the ocean, "said biologist Bill Murphy. Although 2012 was a milestone year for catching lobsters strange colored from yellow to blue (!), The bicolor «Pinchy» (as named by the officers at the Aquarium) is a truly rare event (one in 100 million!). This particular fact, has been so well separated the two colors (black and orange), which is caused by a genetic mutation, which resembles more or less … undercooked lobster! "Most two-color Lobsters are also hermaphrodites, which have distinctly otgana genitals of both sexes, while Pinchy the lobster is clearly female, and this makes it even more rare," adds Bill.