Lobsters Tipping the Scales

40 inches

Length of the largest lobster caught in Maine, a 27-pounder nicknamed “Rocky” said to have a crusher claw strong enough to break a man’s arm. Trapped in a shrimp net near Cushing in February 2012, he was donated to the Maine State Aquarium and set free.

41 inches

Length of the largest lobster ever recorded. Caught off Nova Scotia in 1977, it weighed a whopping 44 pounds, 6 ounces, and was estimated to be more than 100 years old.

7½ feet

Length of the milk chocolate lobster created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Haven’s Candies in Westbrook, Maine, in 2015. At 418 pounds, “Shelby” weighed the equivalent of a small upright piano.

11 feet

Length of “Wilbur,” the fiberglass lobster that has been welcoming diners to Ruth and Wimpy’s Kitchen in Hancock, Maine, since 1991. Among Wilbur’s fans: the actress Kirstie Alley, who the restaurant owners say tried unsuccessfully to buy him.

16 feet

Length of the fiberglass crustacean that cruises atop the Lobstermobile, a red 2000 Volkswagen Beetle donated to the Maine Maritime Museum in 2015 by a Florida seafood distributor. Museum staffers reportedly love to drive it for special events (although parallel-parking this beast is out of the question).

35 feet

Length of the so-called “World’s Largest Lobster,” a lifelike concrete-and-reinforced-steel sculpture in the New Brunswick fishing town of Shediac. Commissioned by the local Rotary club and unveiled in 1990, the 55-ton crustacean (which sits on a 35-ton pedestal) draws half a million visitors a year—and has even been featured on a Canadian postage stamp.

62 feet

Length of the world’s largest crustacean sculpture, unveiled in June 2015 in Qianjiang, China. Note: Though the 100-ton statue is billed as a lobster on the Guinness World Records website, there’s debate over exactly what kind of crustacean it most resembles.