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    Rare and unique lobsters - Courtesy photo by Brad Woodward | of | Share this photo

    Greg Turner, a Scarborough lobsterman, and his son, Tyler, caught these rare lobsters this summer. They'll avoid the cooking pot.

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    A rare calico lobster was caught by a lobsterman off Pine Point on Sept. 29 or 30, 2018.

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    This rare translucent lobster was caught off Stonington on Tuesday morning.

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    This rare translucent lobster was caught off Stonington on Tuesday morning.

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    This rare translucent lobster was caught off Stonington on Tuesday morning.

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    Scales restaurant had a "cotton candy" lobster in its tank before releasing it back to the ocean.

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    Robinson Russell, a Canadian-based lobsterman, posted this photo of a white lobster on Instagram back in early December, soon after he caught it. This week it was reposted on Instagram in Maine. The lobster is still on display at an aquarium in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

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    Many experts say that true calico lobsters are the second most rare, at one in 30 to 50 million. The rarest is an albino – one in 100 million lobsters.

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    Dorr Lobster Seafood Market in Bangor received an unusual delivery: A 2-pound camouflage pattern lobster.

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    A rare orange lobster is now housed at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Workers at a Westborough, Mass., supermarket found the lobster in a shipment of crustaceans from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia and donated it to the aquarium.

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    An extra claw makes this lobster stand out from all the rest at The Lobster Company in Arundel

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    The white lobster probably has a genetic condition called Leucism, which is a partial loss of pigment, according to a post on the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association Facebook page. That's why hints of blue are visible on the shell and in its eyes. The lobster was caught by Alex Todd of Cheabeague Island late in August.

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    This lobster caught and released in Friendship, Maine, was estimated to be 75 years old. The photo, taken by Ricky Louis Felice Jr. , was posted on WCSH-TV's twitter feed on Monday, July 13, 2015.

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    Bill Coppersmith of Windham holds a normal looking lobster next to a bright orange lobster that he caught while fishing in deepwater canyons in the Gulf of Maine with his steersman Brian Skillings. Gabe Souza/Staff Photographer

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    Jenny Peterson, a 201 Market employee, holds a rare calico lobster at the Skowhegan business on Thursday. Owner Chris Foster said the lobster is not for sale and he’ll probably donate it to an aquarium.

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    A rare calico lobster, at left, beside a normal lobster at 201 Market store in Skowhegan on Thursday.

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    In this November 12, 1997 file photo William Coppersmith holds a white lobster he caught in Casco Bay. Jack Milton/Staff Photographer

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    An orange-brown split colored lobster was photographed at the Pine Point Fisherman's Co-Op on Monday, July 6, 2015. The lobsterman who caught it is unknown, but it arrived at the Co-Op last week. According to research by the Lobster Institute, the chances of finding a split colored lobster is one in 50 million. Only the albino lobster, one in 100 million, is rarer than the split-colored lobster, according to the institute. Yoon S. Byun/Staff Photographer

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    A claw view of the rare lobster shows the difference in color of its appendages. According to research by the Lobster Institute, the chances of finding a split colored lobster is one in 50 million. Only the albino lobster, one in 100 million, is rarer than the split-colored lobster, according to the institute.

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    Ted Hyatt, 12, of New Fairfield, Connecticut, handles the orange-brown lobster at the Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op on Monday, July 6, 2015..

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    These two albino lobsters being held at Owls Head Lobster Co. are destined for new homes: One will go to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor. The other will go to Brooks Trap Mill, a lobstering supply store in Thomaston with a tank full of marine life.

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    Only about 1 in 2 million lobsters is blue – like this one, hauled in off Pine Point in Scarborough – according to the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine.

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    "Little Boy Blue," a rare blue lobster, is held by waitress Melissa Hamilton at Becky's Diner In Portland.

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    Ellen Goethel, a marine biologist and owner of Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium in Hampton, N.H., holds a calico lobster caught by Capt. Josiah Beringer.

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    Marybeth Jeitner of Flagler Beach, Fla., bought this rare yellow lobster from a Publix supermarket and eventually got it to the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, N.H. Jeitner had no temptation to eat the 2.5-pound lobster – she's a vegan.

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    Lobsterman Kevin Magoon caught this odd-clawed creature off the coast of Rye, N.H. Photo by Kevin Magoon

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