150 Kilograms, 2.6 metres...

[Externet]

Hi.
Someone sent me this recent picture; there is some reference on the web. Real ? What lobster species is it ? (Puerto Rican fishermen in Gran Canaria)

 

[T.C.]

It's called Homarus photoshopus.

 

[T.C.]

Hi.
Someone sent me this recent picture; there is some reference on the web. Real ? What lobster species is it ? (Puerto Rican fishermen in Gran Canaria)

Why would Puerto Rican Fishermen be in a small skiff of Gran Canaria? For reference, Gran Canaria is an island off the coast of Africa.

The only clawed lobster off North Africa is Homarus gammarus, and that reaches a max size of about two feet.

This is photoshopped, and poorly, without even a credible story. 0/10.

 

[L13]

This is photoshopped, and poorly, without even a credible story. 0/10.

It could be perspective (things in the foreground look bigger than things in the back ground) and strategic cropping instead of photoshopped.

 

[WeRtheOcean]

strategic cropping instead of photoshopped.

Oh, it's photoshopped all right. You can tell because the antennae are growing from the rear edge of the carapace.

 

[agilis]

Oh, it's photoshopped all right. You can tell because the antennae are growing from the rear edge of the carapace.

Or it's two lobsters nose to tail.

 

[Externet]

Why would Puerto Rican Fishermen be in a small skiff of Gran Canaria? For reference, Gran Canaria is an island off the coast of Africa.

It is not about the Puerto Rico you know...
----> Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria - Wikipedia

 

[berndo]

It's not photoshopped, it's AI generated. There are lots of fake animal pictures like these around. The typical mistakes are easy to spot when you know what to look for as the AI just smashes stuff together. The antennaes, the right side of the body is just a blob, the front legs are too thick, lobsters don't have eyes like that, it's raining in the foreground but not where the guys are, etc.
The AI can't really do hands, on pictures when you can see the eyes, they look off. The AI generated animals also tent to look too clean.
There was a picture posted somewhere with a massive beached GWS that looked pretty good but the animal had perfect skin and I don't think you see perfect skin in adult wild animals.

Also consider the source... when it's a blog or some other random website, it's BS. A 150 kg lobster would have made international news in mainstream outlets... who people complain about but are still way better than any kind of 'alternative' news outlet.

 

[Litefoot]

If you’re going to tell a whopper, go big or go home. That looks more like a 500 kg beast not 150. And there must be an incredible story behind landing it on that little boat. Did they just straddle across it like a water weenie and paddle home?