24 Messidor CCXIII (July 12, 2005)
An Ugly Little Bug, With Beady Little Eyes
From the Australian Broacasting Corporation: Musical furry lobster feeling chirpy.
"A bizarre crustacean, tagged the 'musical furry lobster', has been found in Australian waters for the first time.
"It's so unusual, with a furry shell and the ability to chirp, that scientists have placed it in its own genus."
As if the entire article wasn't silly enough already there's also this paragraph:
"Rumour has it the French researchers who discovered the world's first specimen in the 1980s didn't realise its significance. So, they ate it for dinner."
A singing, furry lobster, and you fail to recognise the significance? Zee mind! She boggles!
Random sidenote: will this require us to rethink the popular description of lobsters as "cockroach of the seas"? Unless, of course, there's some furry cockroach out there that I don't (want to) know about.










