Rare blue lobster saved from Red Lobster restaurant finds new home at local zoo

It is estimated that the chance of catching a blue lobster is about one in two million. (Photo by Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) (file photo)
Getty Images For one extremely lucky lobster, death via boiling pot was not in its future.
A rare blue American lobster was found last week at a Red Lobster restaurant in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where staff fished out the crustacean from a package of live lobsters and saved it from winding up on a dinner plate, NPR reported.
“At first it looked like it was fake,” culinary manager Anthony Stein told NPR. “It’s definitely something marvelous to look at.”
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Staff kept the lobster, which they named “Clawde” in honor of the restaurant chain’s mascot, safely tucked away in a tank before it was transferred to the Akron Zoo.
“We kept [it] in the tank and just made sure that nobody took him in the back for dinner,” server Angie Helbig told NPR.
The Akron Zoo said in a Facebook post Tuesday that its famous blue lobster is actually a girl and changed its name to “Clawdia.”
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There are mixed opinions on the exact rarity of the blue lobster, with some saying catching one is a one in a two million chance, according to the BBC . Per the BBC, bright blue lobsters get their color from an overabundance of a specific protein that is caused by a genetic abnormality. Regardless, many fisherman consider blue lobsters a symbol of good fortune.
For Clawdia, it seems luck was certainly on her side.