A lobster is a large marine crustacean with no backbone. As the Latin, word suggest, lobsters do have hard shells. Discover more about lobsters from the following facts. 

1. Lobsters turn bright red when boiled because they have a pigment called astaxanthin in a class of cartenoids compound hidden in their exoskeleton. The red pigment separates from the protein when lobsters are boiled. 
2. A lobster has five pairs of jointed legs with the first bearing enormous claws. The two large claws differ in structure and function. One of them is being adapted for crushing and the other is for fine picking or scrapping. 
3. Lobster are blue when they are alive. However, most kinds of lobsters have dark green or blue shell with spots on them. 
4. A lobster’s body has nineteen parts. Its head has five parts, the thorax or centre has eight parts and the abdomen has six. Every part is covered with shell!
5. The best lobster meat comes from lobsters of the North Atlantic Ocean. More than 10,000 lobsters are caught annually in the United States alone.
6. The gestation period of a lobster last up to a year. A female lobster lay 5000 to 100 000 eggs at a time. Lobsters usually live about fifteen years only.