By Desiree Salas (media@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Aug 26, 2014 04:12 AM EDT

Lobsters may frequently come in greenish brown, or bluish green, but they do come in vivid blue once in a while. Well, at least one in two million lobsters, that is.

Last Saturday, a father-and-daughter lobster-catching team won the blue lobster lottery when they found such a rare creature in their traps, The Boston Globe reported.

"Meghan LaPlante, 14, who has a summer job with her parents at Miss Meghan's Lobster Catch in Old Orchard Beach, said she was excited and surprised to see the unusual lobster," the publication said. "She has found other interesting catches - including a 6-pounder that she had to throw back because of its size, but nothing like this."

"I knew that it was definitely rare, but I actually have never seen any other unordinary lobster," said the incoming high school freshman.

"It definitely stood out," she also told Reuters. "We were really surprised. I've never caught anything like it."

WCSH6 added that the creature was caught "off Pine Point in Scarborough around 10:45 Saturday morning." The teen's father, Jay LaPlante, said that he and his daughter were taking up the traps in Scarborough off Pine Point when they found the 2-pound rarity. The girl has since named the crustacean "Skyler" due to its unusual cerulean hue, and also because "it's one of her favorite names," according to Reuters. It will also be spared from the dinner table.

"Meghan has decided to donate Skyler to the Maine State Aquarium located in West Boothbay Harbor," the Portland-based news source said.

Meanwhile, staff at the said aquarium has shared that the rare lobster will not be lonely at his new home. "It will join 3 other blue lobsters and an orange one in the tank," WCSH6 said. "If you'd like to visit Skyler and friends, the aquarium is open 7 days a week from 10-5pm."

The blue tint in the lobster is "the result of a rare genetic mutation that causes the lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein." Scientists have approximated that such unusual coloring happens in one out of two million lobsters only. Most of the time, such crustaceans are of varying shades of green, orange, or brown.

The Independent noted that a Welsh fisherman also found a blue lobster in June this year. Another fished out a similar creature in Nova Scotia in 2012.

The Boston Globe mentioned that yellow lobsters are even rarer than blue ones, occurring at about one in 30 million lobsters. However, the rarest type is the albino or crystal lobster, which doesn't have any color at all and occurs in one in 100 million lobsters.

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