A rare orange lobster is alive and well after finding its way into the kitchen of a Red Lobster restaurant in Denver. Staffers gave the crustacean a last-minute reprieve and named him 'Crush' in honor of the Broncos. Experts say genetic mutations can lead to lobsters that are orange, blue and even yellow.
A Red Lobster in Colorado has spared the life of a rare lobster it found by handing it off to a local aquarium. After a dishwasher named Jose Romero at a Red Lobster in Pueblo, Colorado, discovered a rare orange lobster while unpacking a shipment Friday, July 12, the staff named the crustacean “Crush” in honor of the Denver Bronco’s legendary Orange Crush defense, read a press release obtained by TODAY.com.
Its color stems “from a genetic mutation,” which “affects and prevents encoded proteins,” said the aquarium. Without one or several proteins, lobsters can be different colors, such as blue, yellow and orange. Red Lobster workers have stumbled across several uniquely colored lobsters in recent years and have relocated them to various places. In 2020, a worker in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, found Clawdia the crustacean and sent the blue lobster to a zoo in Akron, Ohio.
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