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Rare albino lobsters caught days apart

It's no white lie: Lobstermen in Maine caught a pair of rare albino lobsters within a week.

Odds of finding a single specimen believed to be 1 in 100 million

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A pair of albino lobsters sit in a crate with other lobsters at Owls Head Lobster Company in Owls Head, Me., on Friday. (Owls Head Lobster Company, Elizabeth Watkinson/Associated Press)

It's no white lie: Two lobstermen in Maine caught a pair of rare albino lobsters within a week.

This rare yellow lobster was caught by Joe Bates, who also caught an even rarer albino lobster last week. (The Associated Press)
The Portland Press Herald reports that Bret Philbrick caught the curious crustacean off of Owls Head on Thursday and Joe Bates caught one off the Rockland breakwater days earlier. Albino lobsters are believed to be about one in 100 million.

The lobsters are in a crate at Owls Head Lobster Co. One will go to the Maine State Aquarium in Boothbay Harbor and the other to Brooks Trap Mill in Thomaston. The lobsters are under legal size and would normally have to be returned to the ocean but the Marine Patrol made an exception.

Bates also caught a one-in-30 million yellow lobster on Monday.

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