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A Lobster and Crabs on the Seafloor
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Lobsters are long-lived and can be huge. The record-holder, caught off New England in 1934, was a 44.4-pound (20.14-kilogram) beast thought to be at least 100 years old.
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry
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