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Maine lobsterman pulls up rare lobster2 hours, 24 minutes ago A rare two-toned lobster is seen in this Thursday, July 13, 2006, photo taken in Bar Harbor, Maine. The lobster caught by Alan Robinson in Dyer's Bay is a typical mottled green on one side; the other side is a shade of orange that looks cooked. Robinson, of Steuben, donated the lobster to the Mount Desert Oceanarium. Staff members say the odds or finding a half-and-half lobster are 1 in 50 million to 100 million. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Abigail Curtis) BAR HARBOR, Maine - An eastern Maine lobsterman caught...

'Fat Joe' Donated To AquariumMILFORD, Conn. -- A 12-pound lobster has escaped the steamer to get a second chance at life. "Fat Joe" was delivered to a Milford, Conn., restaurant three weeks ago. But the manager couldn't bear to serve Fat Joe up, especially after estimating his age to be about 87. So the lobster is being donated to an aquarium. Fat Joe was caught off the coast of Massachusetts.

He's a lobster, but he'd make a whale of a meal. But don't start melting butter or putting on your bib: the massive, 22- pound crustacean, plucked from the icy waters off Maine last week, is heading for a museum, not a dinner plate. Yesterday, the owner of Wholey's fish market in Pittsburgh — where Bubba has been chillin' since Thursday — gave the leviathan lobster to the local zoo, which will send it to a Ripley's Believe It or Not aquarium. Until yesterday's reprieve, store owner Bob Wholey was caught in the middle of a battle between People for...