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2y ago

Watch: Lobster caught in Maine has two colors and two sexes - UPI.com

Watch: Lobster caught in Maine has two colors and two sexes - UPI.com

I love news about odd lobster stuff!

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Late2TheParty @lemmy.world

2y ago

Watch: Lobster caught in Maine has two colors and two sexes - UPI.com

www.upi.com /Odd_News/2023/11/27/bicolor-lobster-Maine-Bowie/3771701119511/

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