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Market Basket Employee Finds 2 Rare Orange Lobsters
A Market Basket worker found the lobsters while sorting a shipment, and experts said orange lobsters appear only 3 to 4 times a year.
- On Saturday, Nathan, a Market Basket employee of 20 years, found two orange lobsters while sorting through a store shipment at the Seabrook, New Hampshire location.
- Scientists estimate the odds of finding one orange lobster are 1 in 20 to 30 million because proteins that normally bind to create muddy brown coloring fail to bind properly in these rare specimens.
- Aubrey Jane, a lobster scientist and founder of Turning Tides Ocean Education in Maine, called finding two at once "super, super rare," noting the odds of such a discovery are almost unheard of.
- For now, the lobsters will remain at Market Basket until managers decide next steps; Jane noted orange lobsters typically do not end up on dinner plates and are instead sent for study.
- New Hampshire has encountered orange lobsters before; a local fisherman caught one off Hampton Beach in 2023, though such creatures remain rare enough that most people will never see one in their lifetime.
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Market Basket employee finds two rare orange lobsters in shipment to NH store
The average person has a one-in-20 million to one-in-30 million chance of finding an orange lobster. At a Market Basket in New Hampshire, an employee found not one, but two orange lobsters over the weekend.
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Rare Orange Lobsters Found In Seabrook - The Pulse of NH
A Market Basket employee in Seabrook found two rare orange lobsters in a store shipment over the weekend. Experts say the odds of finding even one orange lobster are about one in 20-million to one in 30-million. A lobster scientist says orange lobsters are usually found only a few times each year. The lobsters are […]
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