Published August 1, 2014 •
Updated on August 3, 2014 at 10:37 am
A rare yellow lobster nearly wound up on a dinner plate after being delivered in a Florida grocery store s daily seafood shipment.
Publix manager Church Jones told the Daytona Beach News-Journal the lobster arrived at his Flagler Beach store on July 24th.
Store employees soon realized they d received a rare catch: According to the University of Maine s Lobster Institute, the odds of finding a yellow lobster are one in 30 million.
Publix workers contacted several centers for marine wildlife but were told they didn t have the necessary cold-water tanks to house the lobster.
Marybeth Jeitner told ABC News the lobster was sent to the Sea Coast Science Center in New Hampshire.