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Archive for 2008/03


Siamese Twin Crabs?

Siamese Twin Turtles
If you look around long enough on any part of the Oregon coast, you’ll find something unusual. Normally, it doesn’t take too long, but sometimes it’s right in front of you, in the oddest place. Such is the case with two different ends of the coast. In Newport, a mass stranding of crabs […]

Lego Robo Crab

Lego Crab
UK’s University of Bath has engineered a robot crab made out of Lego. The purpose of the crab is to explore the ocean depths. Primarily aimed at gas and oil companies, the researchers hope to provide the companies a “vehicle” for exploration. Although, I doubt the Lego frame will withstand the pressures below. The […]

Shrimp Shell Acne Treatment

Acne is the scourge of modern youth. It is caused by a number of factors such as excess production of skin oil, the plugging of pores and by bacterial infection. Various over-the-counter treatments are available but these often have side effects such as causing skin to scale and drying out. Robert Modlin, a dermatologist at […]

Colony of Spiny Lobsters

Check out this colony of spiny Lobsters!

Worlds Largest Crab Cake

World’s Largest Crab cake
Sort of leaves a bad taste in the mouth, doesn’t it? “Hey, we don’t make fish cakes. We make crab cakes. But I’ll take it for now until I can convince them to call it a crab cake,” says Jim Cupp, regional sales manager for Handy International and the chief architect of […]

Crab Catcher Caught with Cocaine

A crab catcher said yesterday he used cocaine to help ease the pain from the “bites” of crabs he hunted. Stephen Jagroop of Woodland, San Francique, told magistrate Melville Daniel in the San Fernando Second Court that he caught crabs for a living. He said he used cocaine because he felt no pain when a […]

19 Pound Lobster

That is one huge lobster

French Chefs Say “Non” to Thai Opulence

Three top French chefs have decided against preparing a gourmet meal of lobster and truffles for rich clients in Bangkok who first will visit one of the poorest regions of Thailand. Alain Soliveres, from the acclaimed Taillevent restaurant in Paris, Jean-Michel Lorain and Michel Trama bowed out of the April 5 culinary event, saying they […]

Lobsters Stolen From Restaurant

The owner of Real Fish and Lobster, a seafood eatery in Orlando, has to be steamed after a burglar broke into the restaurant recently and stole 70 live lobsters and other assorted seafood valued at about $2,000. No suspect has been identified, but police should be on the lookout for someone who smells faintly of […]