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[โ€“] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

"theyre lobsided"

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[โ€“] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ask smart questions, get smart answers.

[โ€“] waggz@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

I also recently learned they can be left or right "clawed", which happens gradually over several molts from being identical at birth.

[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm totally princess some days.

[โ€“] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Funny that the most correct answer was also the worst spelled

[โ€“] Smeagol666@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

I used to wonder if it would be more efficient, purely from a farming perspective, that if you harvested a claw from a really big lobster, if they could grow it back faster than the same weight smaller lobster would develope from an immature one.