NYC restaurant 'pardons' rare yellow lobster found in shipment

ByTodd Pierce WABC logo
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Meet the rare lobster
Meet the rare lobsterMeet Ruby the rare lobster.

NEW YORK -- A New York City restaurant found a lobster so rare in one of its shipments that it decided to save it.

Workers at Burger & Lobster in Manhattan's Flatiron District spotted the unique lobster in a batch that came in last week.

Yellow lobsters are rare - rarer than blue or red lobsters, according to the Lobster Institute. The odds of finding one are about 1 in 30 million, the institute said.

The restaurant immediately put the lobster in its own tank and gave it a name -- Ruby. And it gave it a pardon.

The owner of Burger & Lobster said he is looking to give Ruby away to an aquarium or a place where people can see unusual sight.

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