Check out this giant lobster and also a rare “orange” or “cooked” lobster color.

A 20-pound lobster named ‘Goliath’ is donated to an aquarium after a contest.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The white killer whale spotted in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship’s crew scrambling for their cameras.

The nearly mythic creature was real after all.

“I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it,” said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle who photographed the rarity. “It was quite neat to find it.”

The whale was spotted last month while scientists aboard the Oscar Dyson, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship, were conducting an acoustic survey of pollock near Steller sea lion haulout sites.

It had been spotted once in the Aleutians years ago but had eluded researchers since, even though they had seen many of the more classic black and white whales over the years.

Fearnbach said the white whale stood out.

“When you first looked at it, it was very white,” she said Thursday.

Further observation showed that while the whale’s saddle area was white, other parts of its body had a subtle yellowish or brownish color.

It likely is not a true albino given the coloration, said John Durban, a research biologist at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. That’s probably a good thing — true albinos usually don’t live long and can have health problems.

Durban said white killer whales have been spotted elsewhere in the area twice before: in 1993 in the northern Bering Sea around St. Lawrence Island and in 2001 near Adak in the central Aleutians. There have also been sightings along the Russian coast.

While Alaska researchers have documented thousands of black and white killer whales in the Bering Sea and the Aleutians during summer surveys, this was something new and exciting, Durban said.

“This is the first time we came across a white killer whale,” he said.

The scientists observed several pods over a two-week period. The white whale was in a family group of 12 on a day when the seas were fairly rough. It was spotted about 2 miles off Kanaga Volcano on Feb. 23.

The ship stayed with the whale for about 30 minutes.

“Everybody actually came out and was taking pictures,” Fearnbach said. “It was a neat sighting for everybody.”

The whale appeared to be a healthy, adult male about 25 to 30 feet long and weighing upward of 10,000 pounds.

article source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23519675/

A handout image from Blackpool Sealife Centre shows an octopus with six legs, or ‘hexapus.’ British marine experts have found what they claim is a world first — a six-legged octopus, or “hexapus,” who they have christened Henry.

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LONDON (AFP) - British marine experts have found what they claim is a world first — a six-legged octopus, or “hexapus,” whom they have christened Henry. The unique sea creature, which has two limbs fewer than a normal octopus, is believed to be the result of a birth defect rather than an accident, say his keepers at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in northwest England.

“We’ve scoured the Internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus,” said supervisor Carey Duckhouse. Henry was discovered in a lobster pot off the north Wales coast two weeks ago, and was one of eight creatures that Sea Life staff picked up from a local marine zoo there — where staff hadn’t noticed his missing legs.

It was only when he attached himself to the inside of a glass tank that Sea Life staff noticed he was two limbs short of a full set. Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts and blue blood, but not usually six legs. “He’s a lovely little thing,” said a spokeswoman, adding that he will go on display to the public later this month.

Jeff George, the curator at the nonprofit Sea Turtle Inc. holds Allison, a three-year-old Atlantic Green sea turtle in South Padre Island, Texas. Allison lost three of her flippers to a predator attack and is being evaluated for experimental prosthesis for a rear flipper.

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“SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. But the turtle persevered, thanks to injections of antibiotics and a forced diet of squid. Somehow, she swam with just one flipper, even though she can only move in counterclockwise circles and has to push her now 10-pound body off the bottom with her head to breathe.”

“Now, her caregivers hope to make her what’s believed to be the first sea turtle fitted with a prosthetic flipper. Three-flipper turtles can return to the sea and two-flipper turtles can survive in captivity. But those left with only one after predator attacks or run-ins with boat propellers are usually killed.”

“University of Texas’ Dr. Sudarat Kiat-amnuay plans to develop a prosthetic using the same kind of silicon she uses to create facial prosthetics for humans. Her dental expertise helps because the kind of tiny hardware used in dental implants are probably the best size match for Allison’s bones.”

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23389845/wid/11915829?GT1=10856

Wow..talk about having a really unique looking tank. This is a tank designed by Octopus Studios (thanks for the link from my friend!) called the “Silverfish Aquarium” and the first few things that come to mind is ‘how do you clean it’ and ‘what happens when all the fishes want to be in one of the domes?’. haha.

According to the website, maintenance is as easy as having a regular tank. It does come with a cleaning kit so it must be designed just for this tank. It actually comes fully furnished..with the stand, filters, lighting, equipment and etc.

check out their website for more information: http://www.octopusstudios.com/

Jesse the Sand Tiger Shark Eats Another Shark. You have to see the video at CNN. Luckily the little shark is in fair condition and should survive.

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