- A lobster has a tough, jointed shell which protectss and supports it.
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- Common name for marine decapod (that is, with five pairs of appendages on the thorax) crustaceans closely related to the freshwater crayfishes.
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- Up to 50 lobsters might travel in a train like this. If attacked, they form a circle with their pincers facing outwards, like a Wild West wagon train.
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- So that a lobster can grow, the lobster has to shed its shell every now and again.
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- Lobsters live for up to 50 years.
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- The spiny lobsters, or rock lobsters, lack the enlarged claws of the true lobsters.
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- There are three species of true lobsters: the American, the European, and the Norway.
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