December 5, 2014 — A lobster found off the coast of Santa Barbara, California definitely belongs in the upper crust of crustaceans. The giant lobster weighs nearly 12 pounds and is estimated to be a whopping 70 years old.
Biologist Forrest Galante, 26, caught the extra-large lobster while freediving near Anacapa Island on Oct. 6 and immediately realized he had something extraordinary.
“I’ve been doing this for ten years and I’ve never seen a lobster as big as Albert Girther -– which is his name," Galante told Barcroft TV.
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