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Rare orange lobster found in New York supermarket returned to sea
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/orange-lobster-new-york-supermarket‘One-in-30m’ find spared from menu and released into Long Island Sound after being spotted in upstate grocery store
A rare orange lobster was released back into the wild this week after being spotted by an enthusiast at a local grocery store.
The lobster, swiftly nicknamed Jean-Clawed Van Damme, is a one-in-30m catch, according to Humane Long Island, a wildlife rescue group, and the New York Aquarium, who aided in releasing it.
Given that seeing an orange lobster typically means it is dead and boiled and on a plate, shopper Kyle Brancato did a double take when he spotted the lobster moving among the others for sale at a Tops grocery store in upstate New York.
“I walked by the lobster tank, and I saw this bright orange lobster,” Brancato told WHAM, a local CNN affiliate. “Very different from all the other ones in the tank.”
He suspected other shoppers mistook the lobster as diseased and passed it by.
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The lobster, swiftly nicknamed Jean-Clawed Van Damme, is a one-in-30m catch, according to Humane Long Island, a wildlife rescue group, and the New York Aquarium, who aided in releasing it.
Given that seeing an orange lobster typically means it is dead and boiled and on a plate, shopper Kyle Brancato did a double take when he spotted the lobster moving among the others for sale at a Tops grocery store in upstate New York.
“I walked by the lobster tank, and I saw this bright orange lobster,” Brancato told WHAM, a local CNN affiliate. “Very different from all the other ones in the tank.”
He suspected other shoppers mistook the lobster as diseased and passed it by.
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