6′ 6″ Lobster Fossil Found Near Africa

Hungry for a lobster roll?  You may want to have asked this big boy nicely.

A team of Oxford archaeologist researchers have found the fossil of a lobster while digging in Morocco North Africa, larger than your average man with a length of 6’6”. Thought to predate the dinosaurs the creature is guessed to be close to 480 million years old and the mega lobster is described as a gentle giant.

Dr Allison Daley, who co-led a team studying Aegirocassis, wrote in the journal Nature, said: "This would have been one of the largest animals alive at the time.

"These animals are filling an ecological role that hadn't previously been filled by any other animal.

"While filter-feeding is probably one of the oldest ways for animals to find food, previous filter-feeders were smaller, and usually attached to the sea-floor.

"We have found the oldest example of gigantism in a freely swimming filter-feeder."