The clock is ticking for the Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster, experts say: http://ab.co/2yAwg6p | ABC News

The bone-breaking Tasmanian Giant Crayfish can weigh up to 15 pounds and live more than 60 years...... 🎣 Learn more about the Crayfish alongside Jeremy Wade on Dark Waters -- Friday at 10p on Discovery. | Discovery

It’s hard to believe that this menacing-looking creature, armed with bone-crushing pincers and a rugged exoskeleton, would ever have difficulty defending itself. Known to grow to the size of a small dog and live to 40 years old, the Tasmanian Giant Freshwater Crayfish (also known as the giant lobster) is the largest of its kind in the entire world, but it's under immediate threat. The normally pristine streams it calls home are being polluted by sediment runoff from logging. The Government is no

Northern Tasmanian residents will have a rare opportunity to see a Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish up close this weekend. The future of the world's largest freshwater invertebrate is one of the topics that will be discussed at tomorrow’s Resilient City Symposium at the Queen Victoria Museum at Inveresk, and the City of Launceston has a live specimen — a 23-year-old male named 'Lobby' — on loan from the Flowerdale Lobster Ponds. City of Launceston Environmental Scientist Kathryn Pugh said wil

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