‘One in 50 million’: Two-coloured lobster draws visitors to Nova Scotia aquarium

A rare two-coloured lobster named Oscar has become a major attraction at Dalhousie University’s Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity after being donated by a local fisherman.

In his 40 years as a lobster fisherman, Robert Wagner had never seen a critter like it: a half-blue, half-orange lobster, split down the middle from head to tail. "I said, 'Wow! I've never seen that like that in my life,'" said Wagner. Oscar is now calling the Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Halifax home.