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This website is a list of facts about lobsters, from the sizes of different species to the fact that, though they can live 100 years, many do not reach that age due to fishing.
Jonathan Bird’s Blue World video talks about where to find lobsters. It discusses an aquarium that does lobster research. The aquarium talks about the coloring of lobsters. They also show a female lobster and all of her eggs. The video shows the aging of lobsters from one month to adulthood. The video also talks about lobster trapping and how the view of eating lobsters has changed.
Called “Hatch to Catch,” users must use information given about different locations in order to try to hatch and raise lobsters. Temperature, location, and predators are all a part of this simulation.