How rare are colorful lobsters? Scientists dig beneath the shell

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How rare are colorful lobsters? Scientists dig beneath the shell

BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and…cotton-candy colored? Those are all the hues of lobsters that have shown up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks, and scientists' laboratories over the last year. The funky-colored crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet their rarity, with particularly uncommon baby blue-tinted critters described by some as "cotton-candy colored" often estimated at 1 in 100 million. A recent …