Freaky-ass mutant lobster caught in Maine.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
But the kid grew up to have one of the most successful albums of all time and was seen as a superstar until an incident at his ranch, even though he was cleared of all charges, a dark cloud of suspicion hung over him and he fled the US as soon as the trial was over.
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<SLAPS Tuckerfan with a Wet Trout, deservedly>

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[QUOTE=elfkin477]
Yes. There was a special on Discovery Health that showed a child who was much darker on one half of the body than the other. (I believe the poor tyke was also intersexed too.)
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If that’s the same one who’s picture appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after birth, yes, that’s an intersexed child. A true hermaphrodite in fact, very rare. The kid is actually a fusion of two embryos, one male and one female and thus a chimera as well as everything else. Haven’t seen the Discovery special myself, though now I’ll be looking for it to repeat.

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Isn’t it a bit “interesting” that the color differentiation is a precise line down the center of the lobster? One would think that if it were a natural occurance that it would be more muted where the colors are different.

That is, a more gradual line of demarkation, instead of a stark exact line exactly in the middle. I’m a bit skeptical.

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[QUOTE=CanvasShoes]
Isn’t it a bit “interesting” that the color differentiation is a precise line down the center of the lobster? One would think that if it were a natural occurance that it would be more muted where the colors are different.

That is, a more gradual line of demarkation, instead of a stark exact line exactly in the middle. I’m a bit skeptical.
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Piffle.

Bilateral symmetry explains that away nicely.

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[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Piffle.

Bilateral symmetry explains that away nicely.
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Which is??..

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[QUOTE=CanvasShoes]
Which is??..
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Bilateral symmetry – illustrated with a lobster, as it happens.

Here’s a datum to think about: Every tortoiseshell or calico cat I’ve owned, and many of the others I’ve observed over the years, showed a more or less clear demarcation of the colors along at least part of their topline. For example, check out this photo.

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Ah, for “topline” substitute “plane of demarcation.”

:smack: