Field guide No. 752
Tidepool lobster’s magnifying claws
The claws of a collector.
A red lobster in a rock pool has clear glass claws, each one magnifying the shells and pebbles beneath it. It is looking very closely at its dinner.
Field noteLobster shell is hard, red and anything but clear. These claws are glass lenses and still pinch.
- Specimen
- No. 752
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A shallow rock pool of shells and pebbles.
- Nearest existing relative
- A European lobster.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
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