Injured lobster hatches eggs regenerates limbs

摘要

Lobsters are well known for their natural ability to regenerate lost limbs, but one found in a lobster trap by fishermen from the village of Port Isaac, Corwall, in southwest England, faced obvious challenges. Clawdia — who could resist calling her that? — had all four legs missing on her left side, as well as both claws. She was heavily berried, laden with some 5,000 fertilized eggs. So the fishermen from the Mary D decided to takeher to the nearby National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow. Here lobster experts fed and nursed her while the eggs developed and the larvae were released. And she astounded everyone by repaying them with a highly-unusual comeback to defensive health throughan extraordinary moult.