The lobster is considered a large marine crustacean. This means that it is an invertebrate animal with an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. They have rather long bodies with muscular tails to propell them through the water. They typically live in crevices or burrows on the seafloor. They are found in all oceans and prefer to live in rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms.
Lobsters are omnivores and typically eat fish, mollusks, worms, and some plant life. Though they travel slowly across the ocean floor when they flee they swim backwards with their powerful tail. They have been clocked at going 11 mph at times. One of the most distictive characteristics of the lobster are the two oversize claws in the front of its body. They use these claws for finding food, fighting over territory or females, or for defense.
Lobsters are very important to the fishing industry making them one of the more profitible commodities in the coastal areas. At times there have been reports of monster lobsters or colorful lobsters caught in fisherman's traps. These lobsters have been found to grow to 45 pounds and in a variety of colors of blue, white, orange, or Calico. These abnormalities in the lobsters are often caused by recessive genes and will often end up in local aquariums for tourists and ocean education.
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