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Appeared in the December 30, 2025, print edition as 'Thieves Get Claws On Costco Lobsters'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Lobsters and other crustaceans, for example, keep a supply of ACC in their stomachs, which they use to build a new shell after moulting.

From Science Daily • Jan. 12, 2024

There's a silver lining, though: Lobsters that forage on cooler seabeds farther north, off the coast of Canada, might benefit from the heat; in fact, those populations have already been turning up in larger numbers.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

Lobsters never die, he tells a “ham salad of a man” at a party.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Lobsters, lots of ’em, and a bunch of crabs.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick