What are facts about a lobsters?

Answer 1

Lobsters do have some interesting qualities. Although more research is needed, recent studies indicate they might not have a limit to their life-span, they just keep getting older and bigger with some accounts some are over a century old and over three feet long!

Lobsters protect themselves with a hard outer shell or exoskeleton. Since their shells can't grow they have to moult, which they do about once a year, and are vulnerable for a while until their new shells harden.

Not all lobsters have claws, the spiny lobster has no claws but has long strong antenna, and generally lives in warmer waters. Lobsters found in colder waters including the American lobster have claws.

Not all lobsters are red - in fact most of them are greenish brown or brown with a reddish tinge. Other colors leech out when cooking, but not so much the red pigment, so the lobster that ends up on your plate is much redder.

Speaking of color, unlike us mammals with red blood, if you were to cut open a live Lobsters its blood would seem blue; like other marine crustaceans they exploit copper compounds instead of iron-based ones.

Lobsters start out life floating around on the water surface like plankton.. but as they grown, they eventually end up on the bottom where they prefer to hide. It's estimated only one in a thousand lobster eggs survives to maturity. Although they are widely considered scavengers, they actually prefer live food.

One of the most curious spiny lobster behaviors is they were discovered to migrate across the ocean bottom in long trains - they hitch onto the lobster in front of them and can travel like that for hundreds of miles.

Lobsters have a great sense of smell and locate food and recognize chemical signals... their antenna and mouths have this sense of taste, but also they can taste with their feet!

Answer 2

Not all lobsters have claws.

Lobsters prefer live food.

Lobsters can grow to over 3 feet.

Lobsters can live a long time