A lobster caught in Maine is drawing attention online for a couple of unusual attributes -- it's half red and half blue, as well as half male and half female.

I love news about odd lobster stuff!

  • phx
    2·
    1 year ago

    So would this lobster be infertile, able to produce eggs, able to inseminate, or both of the latter two?

    • cygnus
      5·
      1 year ago

      The study referring to that 1-2% figure (Fausto-Sterling et al.) misrepresents the definition of intersex and is off by at least an order of magnitude. Real figures are closer to 1 in 8000.

      Edit for source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813612

      • streetfestivalEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for the feedback. I’m going to delete my comment because I don’t have time to read around this and don’t want to spread false info