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Watch: Lobster caught in Maine has two colors and two sexes - UPI.com (www.upi.com)

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I love news about odd lobster stuff!

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[–] cygnus 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The study referring to that 1-2% figure (Fausto-Sterling et al.) misrepresents the definition of intersex and is off by at least an order of magnitude. Real figures are closer to 1 in 8000.

Edit for source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3813612

[–] streetfestival 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to delete my comment because I don't have time to read around this and don't want to spread false info