An unusual guest has swum towards a walker in St. Peter-Ording. In a shallow pond in the Wadden Sea, the woman discovered a Norway lobster. According to the National Park Administration, it is the first living find of this cancer on a beach in Schleswig-Holstein. A biologist had previously "unambiguously identified the animal," it said.

Actually, the Norway lobster is native to the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic. It can also occur in the North Sea. "The up to 24 centimeters large animals live in rather deep areas on and in the seabed, there in corridors and small caves - and they like it like muddy," says biologist Ulrike Schückel of the National Park Administration. Even at depths of up to 800 meters, the animals feel comfortable.

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Why the crustacean, which is related to the lobster and can live up to ten years, is not at home in the shallow waters of the Wadden Sea? The Norway lobster only tolerates a maximum of 18 degrees water temperature. Especially in this summer, the temperatures on the sprawling beach in front of St. Peter-Ording were mostly well above 20 degrees Celsius.

The Norway lobster, however, is also extremely popular with gourmets. In French cuisine, he is known as Langoustine and part of numerous dishes.

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