Being described as one in a million makes us feel very special, so you can only imagine the ego on Banana the lobster, a rare yellow crustacean that is one in 30 million. The snazzy marine critter was scooped up in the Gulf of Maine by Tenants Harbor lobster fisher Marly Babb who, statistically speaking, was three times more likely to become President of the United States than make the unlikely find.
Not one to hog the glory, Babb generously donated his extraordinary catch to the University of New England’s Marine Science Center, where the golden wonder was named Banana. Other rare lobster specimens come in yellow, blue, and white. The odds of catching a blue lobster are one in 2 million, which seems common as muck next to our one-in-30-million Banana. Blue and yellow lobsters are both the result of a genetic mutation in the proteins that bond with shell pigments.