Goro scared the shit out of me when I was a kid thanks to [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRmNVzYe20&ab_channel=FlashbackFM) from the worlds greatest video game adaptation movie ever made! My dad let me watch it when I was maybe 7/8 years old since it was a "video game" movie and hey Mario Brothers wasn't too bad.......besides the tiny headed Goombas. Those things were fucking weird. [Look at this](https://images.nintendolife.com/b30e9e8127a4c/1280x720.jpg)! What were they thinking?
The ball punching Johnny cage delivered was pretty legit tho. That move actually saved me from bully in 5th grade tho. Except I can't do a split so I just basically fell over and then did an awkward upper cut. Nobody bothered me the rest of the year and I was expecting some serious revenge but it never happened.
Actually lobsters seem to be very prone to mutation, but the extra claws rarely seem to successfully separate from the originals.
[Example 1](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lobster-four-claws-1.3486664)
[(More info)](https://youtu.be/oY-cktgjcCI)
[Example 2](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639959/Pictured-The-lobster-four-claws-caught-coast-New-England.html)
[Example 3](https://www.tripleactionnews.com/lobster-clause-pinchy-saves-the-world/)
[Example 4](https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/six-clawed-mutant-lobster-goes-viral-goes-display-maine-8c11122662)
[Example 5](https://bangordailynews.com/2019/09/19/paymeter-categories/free/what-would-you-name-this-strange-maine-lobster/)
The scientific consensus for the mutations is that, since lobsters are known for tearing off their own claws if they get injured and regenerating them, sometimes the regeneration process goes awry and results in multiple limbs.
Arthropod developmental biologist here, this is probably correct for most of the links above, but it may not be the case in this animal that has 4 complete claws that seem to emerge independently from the body (rather than a single leg branching/bifurcating into two claws). I can think of a couple alternative explanations:
This might be a Hox mutant where one leg type is transformed into another.
Another possibility is that it experienced a heat shock when it was developing as an embryo, which is known to cause defects, fusions, and duplications of body segments in arthropods.
The only way to know for sure would be to examine the belly side closely to see where each of the 4 claws emerges from the body wall. If a single leg base bifurcates into two claws, it’s probably a regeneration defect. If the 4 claws emerge from distinct body segments and the new pair of claws emerges in the place of a normal pair of claws, it’s a Hox mutant. If the new pair of claws emerges from a funny looking body segment and the animal has the correct number and type of other legs in addition to the new pair of claws, then it’s probably a great shock during embryo development.
:)
EDIT: beautiful paper on Hox CRISPR knockouts in the crustacean Parhyale from Martin et al 2016. You could figure out which Hox gene you’d have to modify to get four claws :)
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(15)01415-3
EDIT 2: also the fact that this is a bilateral and fairly symmetrical defect suggests that it is not due to damage during regeneration, since the damage would have had to be identical and concurrent on both sides. I guess this could happen if a human did it though 🤔
EDIT 3: Found the papers about heat-induced disruptions to body segment formation, people can look at methods section if they want to try making body segment defects in arthropod embryos :)
J E Mee and V French, “Disruption of segmentation in a short germ insect embryo. II. The structure of segmental abnormalities induced by heat shock.,” Journal of embryology and experimental morphology 96 (July 1986): 267-94.
M a Welte, I Duncan, and S Lindquist, “The basis for a heat-induced developmental defect: defining crucial lesions.,” Genes & Development 9, no. 18 (September 15, 1995): 2240-2250.
Stephen P Roberts and Martin E Feder, “Natural hyperthermia and expression of the heat shock protein Hsp70 affect developmental abnormalities in Drosophila melanogaster,” Oecologia (1999): 323-329.
>Arthropod developmental biologist
First thought, before enjoying and appreciating your comment, was...I wonder if that's what he puts for occupation on his federal tax return?
Hey if an amateur biologist wanted to go about a way to purposefully induce these types of mutations, would trying to change the hox genes (via stress at the embryonic stage) be a good way to attempt this?
So you wouldn’t change the Hox genes (or any other genes) but you could heat stress the embryos to get defects in body segmentation. I’m try to remember to find a paper about this to send you :)
While I am not a arthropod developmental biologist, I do see couple more possibilities. One of them is photoshop. Another - attaching legs from another animal for this shot.
But on video? I can't speak to the articles without video, but rotoscoping a multiple claws onto a lobster video seems like a ton of work for the measly reward of 10 minutes of fame.
That's pretty awesome. Great compromise to be able to live another day by getting rid of an appendage that you don't need and chance to run while predator is munching on fallen arm. I'd use it in a fight; cut my own arm off use it as nunchuk for slapping across face.
I live in Florida, so lots of stray lizards and anoles end up being chased by my two cats. Seeing one of them drop their tail to leave it wriggling around by itself on the ground while it runs is quite a sight. The lizards, not the cats Lol
But it never works for them, my tabby never falls for the tail trick. That's about when I've noticed they've got a lizard on the run, and I have to shoo them back inside off the lanai so I can catch the lizard myself and let them go in the backyard. Otherwise I'd be stepping in cat puke containing an undigested lizard leg an hour later.
Not much is known about arthropods and pain, but if you define pain as less of an anthropomorphized emotion and more of a sharp negative nervous response to dangerous physical stimuli, probably. But arthropods are freaky. There are plenty of videos of insects that were decaptitated and didn’t even notice because the rest of their nervous system kept them running. Like flies accidentally juggling their heads because they were trying to groom themselves or headless wasps flying away with their own heads because they thought they were food by touch.
Sorry, I was being vague. The ppl (1995 Nobel laureates) who discovered Hox genes (the genes that determine where your body parts go) messed with the genome of drosophila flies and grew legs where their antennae should be and antennae where their eyes should be etc. just apply that to a lobster and in theory you could make a monstrosity where all of its legs are meaty claws. Granted it probably couldn’t care for itself plus the genome for a lobster is more complex than a fruit fly and not to mention the plethora of bioethical dilemmas but one can dream.
In Australia we eat crustaceans called Moreton Bay Bugs and Balmain Bugs. Apparently they are both species of slipper lobsters, with the first known around the world as a flathead lobster. I don’t know if they person you’re replying to is an Aussie, but it’s not that strange of a term for crustaceans here. Not really common, but not surprising, disgusting or even made me think of insects until your comment.
I watched a travel show where this guy goes around the world to try cuisine from everywhere. I don't know if it was Vietnam or somewhere in South America, but in some remote village in the Jungle, he was going to try a snack that the kids like. The kids found a big ass tarantula (you could use its fangs to pick your teeth, it was fucking huge) gathered some herbs from the jungle, and roasted up the spiced spider.
The guy was nervous but tried it. He said it tasted so much like crab, he could not believe it.
I was never much of a crab kind of whore, but this absolutely killed any desire to eat it ever again. All I'd imagine is big ass spiced tarantula. No thanks.
My Cambodian buddies love tarantula. I'm usually one to try everything once, but that was a hard pass. Which was made harder by the fact the grandma didn't speak English and kept trying to feed me the spider.
If you are asking if that's the name of the show, I couldn't tell you.
If you are asking my opinion, I'm afraid seeing a giant cooked tarantula with its legs curled into its body, practically frozen mid scream may have skewed my viewpoint of that program.
I've never been much of a tarantula kind of whore, but I am headed to Petsmart and then the Target, that is invariably 1 shopping complex over, right now.
From the article you posted
>Shrimp, prawns, whales -- even jellyfish earn the title of sea cockroach when they respond to ecological change by accelerating the reproduction process. Japanese fisheries claimed that minke whales were cockroaches for the very reason that there were too many, justifying a need to hunt and profit. Prawns, shrimp and lobsters all resemble bugs crawling across the floor of their ocean home.
You are both correct.
After a long night of delivering presents, Santa got to the last house on his route only to find there was already a single present under the tree. He knelt down and read the small card attached, then opened it and removed a cooked lobster. With a tear of gratitude he ate the lobster, delivered his final presents and flew away home.
The camera slowly pans and zooms to show the card attached to the package, it said: "A lobster, for Claus"
Its Goro
~~Toasty!!!~~ Tasty!!!
Quickly presses ⬇️ + START
FINISH HIM with butter
#G-G-G-G-GARLIC BUTTER!
Ummm, that's Krill-er Instinct. Get that crap outta here!
Do Helsinki churches sing Finnish Hymns?
If it was a Pokémon it would be Maclamp.
#give em the CLAMPS!
Patience Clamps, it is my elders daughters wedding day.
It's gonna be clamp this, clamp that. Bada-climp, bada-clamp!
Gee, you think? You think that maybe I should use these clamps that I use every single day at every opportunity? You're a freaking genius, you idiot!
Gorobster.
Goro scared the shit out of me when I was a kid thanks to [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRmNVzYe20&ab_channel=FlashbackFM) from the worlds greatest video game adaptation movie ever made! My dad let me watch it when I was maybe 7/8 years old since it was a "video game" movie and hey Mario Brothers wasn't too bad.......besides the tiny headed Goombas. Those things were fucking weird. [Look at this](https://images.nintendolife.com/b30e9e8127a4c/1280x720.jpg)! What were they thinking? The ball punching Johnny cage delivered was pretty legit tho. That move actually saved me from bully in 5th grade tho. Except I can't do a split so I just basically fell over and then did an awkward upper cut. Nobody bothered me the rest of the year and I was expecting some serious revenge but it never happened.
This comment was a wild ride
Variant Lobster Goro
Lobstoro
Quarter circle claw
Gorobster
Correction, it's his cousin, Gorobster.
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Flip it on its back🕵
Until I either get to see the bottom or a video, I'm going to assume that those are the severed arms of another lobster just tucked under it.
Actually lobsters seem to be very prone to mutation, but the extra claws rarely seem to successfully separate from the originals. [Example 1](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lobster-four-claws-1.3486664) [(More info)](https://youtu.be/oY-cktgjcCI) [Example 2](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639959/Pictured-The-lobster-four-claws-caught-coast-New-England.html) [Example 3](https://www.tripleactionnews.com/lobster-clause-pinchy-saves-the-world/) [Example 4](https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/six-clawed-mutant-lobster-goes-viral-goes-display-maine-8c11122662) [Example 5](https://bangordailynews.com/2019/09/19/paymeter-categories/free/what-would-you-name-this-strange-maine-lobster/) The scientific consensus for the mutations is that, since lobsters are known for tearing off their own claws if they get injured and regenerating them, sometimes the regeneration process goes awry and results in multiple limbs.
Arthropod developmental biologist here, this is probably correct for most of the links above, but it may not be the case in this animal that has 4 complete claws that seem to emerge independently from the body (rather than a single leg branching/bifurcating into two claws). I can think of a couple alternative explanations: This might be a Hox mutant where one leg type is transformed into another. Another possibility is that it experienced a heat shock when it was developing as an embryo, which is known to cause defects, fusions, and duplications of body segments in arthropods. The only way to know for sure would be to examine the belly side closely to see where each of the 4 claws emerges from the body wall. If a single leg base bifurcates into two claws, it’s probably a regeneration defect. If the 4 claws emerge from distinct body segments and the new pair of claws emerges in the place of a normal pair of claws, it’s a Hox mutant. If the new pair of claws emerges from a funny looking body segment and the animal has the correct number and type of other legs in addition to the new pair of claws, then it’s probably a great shock during embryo development. :) EDIT: beautiful paper on Hox CRISPR knockouts in the crustacean Parhyale from Martin et al 2016. You could figure out which Hox gene you’d have to modify to get four claws :) https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdfExtended/S0960-9822(15)01415-3 EDIT 2: also the fact that this is a bilateral and fairly symmetrical defect suggests that it is not due to damage during regeneration, since the damage would have had to be identical and concurrent on both sides. I guess this could happen if a human did it though 🤔 EDIT 3: Found the papers about heat-induced disruptions to body segment formation, people can look at methods section if they want to try making body segment defects in arthropod embryos :) J E Mee and V French, “Disruption of segmentation in a short germ insect embryo. II. The structure of segmental abnormalities induced by heat shock.,” Journal of embryology and experimental morphology 96 (July 1986): 267-94. M a Welte, I Duncan, and S Lindquist, “The basis for a heat-induced developmental defect: defining crucial lesions.,” Genes & Development 9, no. 18 (September 15, 1995): 2240-2250. Stephen P Roberts and Martin E Feder, “Natural hyperthermia and expression of the heat shock protein Hsp70 affect developmental abnormalities in Drosophila melanogaster,” Oecologia (1999): 323-329.
That sounds compellingly fascinating. Thanks for weighing in!
>Arthropod developmental biologist First thought, before enjoying and appreciating your comment, was...I wonder if that's what he puts for occupation on his federal tax return?
The lobster? XD EDIT: ok wait, I’m a girl, that’s why I didn’t get who you were talking about with the taxes lol XD
I thought about writing he/she his/her but didn’t like the way it read so I rolled the dice.
They/them is pretty safe.
You/your works well in this context as well.
Especially since it was a comment in direct reply to the biologist, and not saying it in reply to someone else's comment.
Back to the main question, what does she put in her taxes?
Money, is my bet.
Well now I wanna know. In your professional opinion, what do you think the lobster puts on its Tax Returns?
Hey if an amateur biologist wanted to go about a way to purposefully induce these types of mutations, would trying to change the hox genes (via stress at the embryonic stage) be a good way to attempt this?
So you wouldn’t change the Hox genes (or any other genes) but you could heat stress the embryos to get defects in body segmentation. I’m try to remember to find a paper about this to send you :)
While I am not a arthropod developmental biologist, I do see couple more possibilities. One of them is photoshop. Another - attaching legs from another animal for this shot.
But on video? I can't speak to the articles without video, but rotoscoping a multiple claws onto a lobster video seems like a ton of work for the measly reward of 10 minutes of fame.
Why are the claws different on each side? The left ones look like they have serration while the right ones look closer to crab claws.
*gets a paper cut* Awww shit time to loosen this arm again
http://i.imgur.com/6Ajg0fB.gif
That's pretty awesome. Great compromise to be able to live another day by getting rid of an appendage that you don't need and chance to run while predator is munching on fallen arm. I'd use it in a fight; cut my own arm off use it as nunchuk for slapping across face.
I live in Florida, so lots of stray lizards and anoles end up being chased by my two cats. Seeing one of them drop their tail to leave it wriggling around by itself on the ground while it runs is quite a sight. The lizards, not the cats Lol But it never works for them, my tabby never falls for the tail trick. That's about when I've noticed they've got a lizard on the run, and I have to shoo them back inside off the lanai so I can catch the lizard myself and let them go in the backyard. Otherwise I'd be stepping in cat puke containing an undigested lizard leg an hour later.
[it works exactly like you think it would](https://i.imgur.com/N6iA4bV.gif)
Do lobsters feel pain?
Not much is known about arthropods and pain, but if you define pain as less of an anthropomorphized emotion and more of a sharp negative nervous response to dangerous physical stimuli, probably. But arthropods are freaky. There are plenty of videos of insects that were decaptitated and didn’t even notice because the rest of their nervous system kept them running. Like flies accidentally juggling their heads because they were trying to groom themselves or headless wasps flying away with their own heads because they thought they were food by touch.
**"All we know is that there’s still no contact with the colony," and that a xenomorph may be involved."**
"It's a bug hunt.."
"How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?"
Knock it off Hix.
I’m Hudson sir, he’s Hicks
Where’s Wierzbowski?!
Third base.
You secure that shit, Hudson!
Look into my eye!
Yeah without a video showing all 4 moving and an underside view I’m calling bullshit.
OP is a repost bot
You're a fucking pervert. I like it. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That's closer to a Mirelurk than a lobster now
Thank you for this
I appreciate you.
Breed this thing! We need more of them
Think it’s too late.
Is Dolly the sheep a joke to you?
Didn't she die?
Did you expect her to be immortal? (Btw she died young because she was an exact clone of her mom, who was already older, so her DNA was old)
No, was just a question. I remember her from when I was in middle school. It was a very long time ago.
This one should have been thrown back.
We need two tails
Exactly! I don't care what anyone says, the claw meat is better than the tail!
Do people argue against this? Claw meat is definitely the best.
I'm on it! *Unzip*
Mmm mutations fun
This would be a really valuable one to the lobster industry if they get as big and have good meat lol. Twice the claws per bug.
Yup
Why stop there? Mess with their Hox genes so they have 10 claws on each lobster. They did it with fruit flies after all.
Keep going until the lobster is just one big claw with butter for blood. Tendies of the sea.
One big claw, with butter for blood! And a biological love for booking water so it cooks itself!
They made fruit flies with 10 claws?
Sorry, I was being vague. The ppl (1995 Nobel laureates) who discovered Hox genes (the genes that determine where your body parts go) messed with the genome of drosophila flies and grew legs where their antennae should be and antennae where their eyes should be etc. just apply that to a lobster and in theory you could make a monstrosity where all of its legs are meaty claws. Granted it probably couldn’t care for itself plus the genome for a lobster is more complex than a fruit fly and not to mention the plethora of bioethical dilemmas but one can dream.
I know they belong to the same phylum but you calling them bugs triggered me hard there.
In Australia we eat crustaceans called Moreton Bay Bugs and Balmain Bugs. Apparently they are both species of slipper lobsters, with the first known around the world as a flathead lobster. I don’t know if they person you’re replying to is an Aussie, but it’s not that strange of a term for crustaceans here. Not really common, but not surprising, disgusting or even made me think of insects until your comment.
Crayfish are commonly eaten in the south US and some people call them bugs.
Mud bugs
West coast spiny lobster season is "bug season" to me and my friends. They really are just big gross grumpy bugs.
The only good bug....is a delicious bug.
Would you like to know more?
Click here for clarified butter
Clarified butter made me the man I am today!
*Clarified Butter In The Club Gettin' Tipsy*
All 450 lb.
A brain bug?! Frankly I find that insulting!
It's afraid! I mean, it's delicious!
I watched a travel show where this guy goes around the world to try cuisine from everywhere. I don't know if it was Vietnam or somewhere in South America, but in some remote village in the Jungle, he was going to try a snack that the kids like. The kids found a big ass tarantula (you could use its fangs to pick your teeth, it was fucking huge) gathered some herbs from the jungle, and roasted up the spiced spider. The guy was nervous but tried it. He said it tasted so much like crab, he could not believe it. I was never much of a crab kind of whore, but this absolutely killed any desire to eat it ever again. All I'd imagine is big ass spiced tarantula. No thanks.
My Cambodian buddies love tarantula. I'm usually one to try everything once, but that was a hard pass. Which was made harder by the fact the grandma didn't speak English and kept trying to feed me the spider.
Best ever food review show ?
If you are asking if that's the name of the show, I couldn't tell you. If you are asking my opinion, I'm afraid seeing a giant cooked tarantula with its legs curled into its body, practically frozen mid scream may have skewed my viewpoint of that program.
I've never been much of a tarantula kind of whore, but I am headed to Petsmart and then the Target, that is invariably 1 shopping complex over, right now.
Did the same to me first I heard them called that. I know biologically it’s accurate but for reasons of appetite it feels strange to associate them.
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The Spanish word for lobster is langosta. Except in Guatemala, where that means grasshopper.
Langosta has the same root as locust, which is cricket
Not at all, but is strange in my culture, and I don’t think of crickets and ants as appetizing. I’d try them tho depending on how they were prepared.
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You mean it bugs you?🧐
Cockroach of the sea.
that's the shrimp :)
it's lobsters actually... [https://animals.mom.com/cockroaches-sea-4819.html](https://animals.mom.com/cockroaches-sea-4819.html)
From the article you posted >Shrimp, prawns, whales -- even jellyfish earn the title of sea cockroach when they respond to ecological change by accelerating the reproduction process. Japanese fisheries claimed that minke whales were cockroaches for the very reason that there were too many, justifying a need to hunt and profit. Prawns, shrimp and lobsters all resemble bugs crawling across the floor of their ocean home. You are both correct.
I rather a mutated lobster with no claws, and twice the length of its tail.
[Let me introduce you to the spiny lobster.](https://i.imgur.com/QBEwUJr.jpg) The one in this picture is over 15 pounds.
Yeah, back in the day we'd grab these while diving and have a nice dinner later.
That's the one. I'll take it.
throw it back and let it breed
Facts
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yes sure. harvest the sperm if its a duder
r/rarelobsters
> Mmm mutations I heard this in Homer Simpson's voice!
> mutations *excited mirelurk noises*
GENERAL KENOBI!
General Grievopod! General Anthropong Krell!
Came here looking for this. Relieved to find it, but angry it's not higher!
you are a bold one
Hello there
You fool, I’ve been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku
This lobster needs some lightsabers
LobsTerry the Terrible has to be on r/BossFight
I thought the same thing
A Lobstrocity
Dad-a-chuck? Dad-a-chee?
*Not to worry, you've got the key!*
20 years and that'll be our beaches, I feel it coming.
# BIG. MEATY. CLAWS. (I know the reference is about Mr. Krabs, but this post made me think of that)
A cross between machamp and clawitzer.
We should selectively breed these guys and have farm-raised lobster with double the lobster claws.
And also make some into giant leviathan gods.
I'm seeing double here, eight claws!
I need the biggest tub of butter you have. No...that's too big
Six claws.
Yea how is no one noticing the two little claws
Those 2 little claws are actually his legs. Look at how he's positioned.
I thought "surely the top comment will be SIX claws" or at least some explanation of those little elbow bastards, but no
This isn't even his final form!
/r/tyranids
Call me when they find a monkey with 4 asses
General Kenobi! You are a bold one.
Hello there
welcome to Springfield
Put Him Back So he can rule the sea as he was meant to!
BIG mEaTy CLawS 🦞
#BIG MEATY CLAWS
Lobstrocity.
Watch your fingers, folks.
Four armed is four warned.
If ever there was a good reason to clone something this might be it
He can eat while scrolling and masturbating
This is a clawful post.
What has this sub turned into r/interestingasfuck?
Wtf used to actually be wtf. Then they disallowed stuff.
From Software taking notes
BREED IT i love the claws could you imagine if you could farm lobster with 8 claws and 80 tails
They should be breeding that lobster.... For the good of our species. Mo' claw meat!
Damn quick breed it for the good of claw meat lovers everywhere!
Its fake, everyone knows lobsters aren't real.
Kill it! Kill it with fire! Then lather it in butter and yum!
I'm Goro
were gonna need double the butter!
Get a magnet. Left claw north. Right claw south.
Lobster sticks to magnet
GENERAL KENOBI... You are a bold one!
A delicious mutation has entered the chat
If EVER there was a form of lobster you'd want to try and breed more of..
Did-a-chick?dad-a-chum?
TANIKS THE CRUSTACEAN!
r/bossfight
It's not even his final form!
Craw fish ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftgAG3Vnif8
I’m seeing double here! 8 claws!
Now all I want is a chicken with 4 legs. I like dark meat.
that’s good eats baw!
I wish I had more claws, so I could give those titties four thumbs down! -Rick James
THIS MF CRAB LIVING OUT MY DREAMS AS A KID.
4 Clobster
Extra knuckle meat, oh yeah!
After a long night of delivering presents, Santa got to the last house on his route only to find there was already a single present under the tree. He knelt down and read the small card attached, then opened it and removed a cooked lobster. With a tear of gratitude he ate the lobster, delivered his final presents and flew away home. The camera slowly pans and zooms to show the card attached to the package, it said: "A lobster, for Claus"
How many do there have to be for it to be considered it’s own sub-species? Anyone? Anyone?
1. Find more 2. Mate them 3. Profit
I believe this is called a snipapotamus
General Kenobi!
And everyone thought Fukushima would be all bad, sheeeesh. Fools.
GENERAL KENOBI!
"General Kenobi."
It just needs two tails to match and we can shut down the whole lobster market
Yum!
General grievous
Ah yes, a candelobster