WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – Workers at a Massachusetts supermarket have found a rare orange lobster.

Roche Bros. Supermarkets said in a Facebook post on May 29 that workers at their Westborough store found the lobster in a shipment of crustaceans from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

Gallery: See more strange and beautiful lobsters.

Greg Turner, a Scarborough lobsterman, and his son, Tyler, caught these rare lobsters this summer. They'll avoid the cooking pot. Courtesy photo by Brad Woodward

It has since donated the lobster to the New England Aquarium in Boston.

The Lobster Institute at the University of Maine says the likelihood of a lobster being orange is about 1 in 30 million.

The New England Aquarium says the lobster is about 7 to 9 years old. It says the crustacean is lucky to be alive because its color was “flashing a neon sign” to predators.

The lobster will either stay in Boston or go to another aquarium in Japan.

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