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La costa atlántica de Massachusetts se convirtió este verano en escenario de un fenómeno poco común. En cuestión de semanas aparecieron dos langostas americanas con caparazón azul intenso, ejemplares que sorprenden por su color fuera de lo habitual y por la escasa probabilidad de que se den en la naturaleza. Los investigadores estiman que solo una de cada dos millones de langostas presenta esta mutación, lo que explica la atención que despertó tanto en la comunidad científica como en el público.
La primera de estas capturas se produjo en julio, cuando el pescador Brad Myslinski, al mando del barco Sophia & Emma en Salem, encontró en sus trampas un ejemplar inusual. De inmediato reconoció que no se trataba de una langosta común y decidió donar el animal al Centro de Ciencias Marinas de la Universidad de Northeastern. Allí fue recibido como una rareza biológica y bautizado por estudiantes con el nombre de Neptune, en honor al dios romano del mar.
Según informó la Universidad de Northeastern en un comunicado, Neptune es una langosta americana típica en comportamiento y fisiología. Pesa aproximadamente un kilo, tiene unos siete años de vida y mantiene hábitos semejantes a los de su especie: esconderse bajo rocas y alimentarse de moluscos. Lo único que la diferencia es el caparazón azul eléctrico, un rasgo que la convierte en pieza única dentro del acuario de contacto destinado a programas de educación y divulgación científica.
El origen de esta coloración fue explicado por especialistas de la universidad. De acuerdo con declaraciones recogidas por Northeastern Global News, la bióloga Sierra Muñoz indicó que el tono proviene de una anomalía genética que produce un exceso de crustacianina, una proteína asociada a la pigmentación. En condiciones normales, las langostas presentan una mezcla de pigmentos que se combinan para dar el tono marrón moteado, ideal para el camuflaje en fondos rocosos. En los ejemplares como Neptune, la mutación altera ese equilibrio y el azul predomina en todo el caparazón.
El medio Daily Item entrevistó a Jay Krithivas, instructor de divulgación del centro marino, quien detalló que “la mutación anula la expresión de los demás colores” y permite que aflore el azul, que ya estaba presente de forma latente. El especialista recordó que existen otras variantes raras, como las langostas amarillas, calicó, albinas y las llamadas “algodón de azúcar”, que combinan azul claro y rosa. Aunque cada una responde a procesos genéticos distintos, todas comparten la característica de ser extremadamente infrecuentes en la naturaleza.
La segunda captura ocurrió pocas semanas después y fue informada por el diario Standard-Times. Otro pescador de Massachusetts atrapó una langosta azul de unos ocho o nueve años de edad y poco más de medio kilo de peso. En este caso, el ejemplar fue entregado al Departamento de Pesca Marina estatal, que gestionó su donación a la Escuela de Ciencias Marinas y Tecnología Este de la Universidad de Massachusetts Dartmouth. Allí, el animal se exhibe en un acuario educativo abierto a estudiantes y público general.
El gerente del laboratorio, Forrest Kennedy, señaló al mismo medio que se trata de un ejemplar “de un azul brillante y precioso”, destacando la oportunidad de mostrarlo como recurso pedagógico. Su destino, al igual que el de Neptune, estará ligado a la enseñanza y a la divulgación científica, lejos del consumo gastronómico al que se destina la mayoría de las capturas de langosta.
Ambos casos remarcan no solo el atractivo visual de estas anomalías genéticas, sino también su importancia para la investigación. Las universidades subrayan que la supervivencia de estas langostas hasta la edad adulta resulta poco habitual. El color azul intenso las hace más visibles para depredadores naturales, como peces grandes y, en el caso de Nueva Inglaterra, cangrejos azules, cuya presencia aumentó en la región debido al calentamiento de las aguas. Documentar ejemplares vivos brinda a los científicos una oportunidad única para estudiar cómo influyen estas mutaciones en la ecología marina.
Según la ecóloga Neida Villanueva, citada en un comunicado de Northeastern, Neptune se adaptó con rapidez a su nuevo entorno en el acuario. Para proteger su bienestar, el equipo diseñó una cabaña de refugio y limitó la interacción con visitantes, respetando la naturaleza solitaria de la especie. El animal comparte espacio con erizos verdes, peces cunner, peces esculpinos y cangrejos Jonás, aunque se mantiene aislado de depredadores potenciales.
La rareza de estas capturas también abre interrogantes sobre la longevidad de las langostas. De acuerdo con la información proporcionada por el centro de Northeastern, estos crustáceos pueden superar los cien años de vida si evitan depredadores, enfermedades o problemas durante la muda. Se registraron ejemplares de hasta nueve kilos, lo que refuerza el interés en estudiar cómo la genética y el ambiente influyen en su desarrollo.
El valor educativo de Neptune y de la langosta azul de Dartmouth no se limita a la observación del público. También sirve para explicar fenómenos biológicos más amplios, como las mutaciones genéticas, la adaptación de las especies y la diversidad de la vida marina. Los programas de divulgación permiten que estudiantes de diferentes niveles se acerquen a la biología marina con ejemplos concretos y llamativos.
Los especialistas remarcan que estos hallazgos, aunque anecdóticos en términos de frecuencia, resultan significativos para comprender los procesos naturales. Las dos langostas azules capturadas en Massachusetts se transformaron en símbolos de una biodiversidad sorprendente y, al mismo tiempo, en recursos que contribuyen a la formación científica de nuevas generaciones.
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Russia isn’t backing off from attacking Ukraine and pummeled it with missiles and drones Thursday — just weeks after President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, in an attempt to advance a peace deal.
The attack could be a signal Putin is utilizing diplomacy to buy himself more time to advance his goals and continue to attack Ukraine, all while avoiding secondary sanctions that the Trump administration has threatened to impose, according to experts.
The time to act is now, according to Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on cyber issues.
«Putin is stringing President Trump along and the added time is helping Russia to continue the bombing campaign against Ukrainian cities,» Bacon said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital. «The longer Trump refuses to impose secondary sanctions against Russia and send high-end weapons to Ukraine, the more he looks like a simp for Putin. It is beyond time for Trump to have moral clarity and come in strong to help the democracy that is being attacked by the Russian thug.»
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The time to act is now, according to Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on cyber issues. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general who is not seeking reelection in 2026, said that discussions with Putin have proven futile and have indicated Putin isn’t serious about a deal.
«We’ve seen zero results from the talks as far as Putin being willing to compromise,» Bacon said. «Although I think seeking negotiations was worthwhile initially, it showed Putin does not want peace.»
The White House has maintained that Trump has made more progress in two weeks to resolve the conflict than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, did in more than three years, and pointed to Trump’s meeting with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy within days of each other.
«President Trump’s national security team continue to engage with Russian and Ukrainian officials toward a bilateral meeting to stop the killing and end the war,» White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital.
Trump announced July 14 that he would sign off on «severe tariffs» against Russia if Moscow failed to agree to a peace deal within 50 days. He then dramatically reduced the deadline to only 10–12 days — which ended Aug. 8. But rather than lay on additional sanctions against Russia, Trump met with Putin a week later in Alaska and hailed the meeting a great success.
Still, progress stemming from the meeting appears limited. Russia did not agree to a ceasefire, and while Trump initially said a trilateral meeting with both Putin and Zelenskyy was in the works, Russia has shown disinterest in such a meeting.
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President Donald Trump, right, greets Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, as he arrives at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richards Aug. 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with NBC News Aug. 22 that no meeting had been scheduled and Putin would only agree to one if certain terms were approved beforehand. That’s not the case, he said.
«Putin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy when the agenda is ready for a summit, and this agenda is not ready at all,» Lavrov said.
Meanwhile, Russia launched a massive attack employing nearly 600 drones and decoys against Kyiv Thursday, killing more than 20 people. In response, the U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Friday, per the urging of Ukraine and several other European allies.
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Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia during former President Barack Obama’s administration, said in a post on X that Putin has only escalated attacks against Ukraine following the Alaska meeting, and said Putin is «openly mocking» Trump.
«I hope Mr. Trump and his team understand how Putin is spitting in their faces,» McFaul said in a Thursday post on X.
Additionally, Putin is onto the fact he can bypass economic consequences, and won’t seriously negotiate a deal unless he must, according to Steven Pifer, who previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine during former President Bill Clinton’s administration.
«I think that Putin is, in fact, stringing the president along,» Pifer told Fox News Digital. «Putin still believes he can achieve his goals, vis a vis Ukraine, on the battlefield. And we’re not going to see a serious negotiating attempt by the Russians until Putin is convinced he cannot win on the battlefield, and that continuing to try is only going to mean greater and greater cost — first and foremost, a lot more dead Russian soldiers.»
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President Donald Trump, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, hold a meeting at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Aug. 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska. ( Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«I just don’t see any really serious steps the administration has taken to inflict any punishment on Putin,» Pifer said. «I think Putin’s figured that out, and until Putin is disabused of that notion, he’s going to keep missing deadlines.»
Historically, Russia’s demands for a peace deal have included barring Ukraine from ever joining NATO, along with concessions on some of the borders that previously were Ukraine’s.
Peter Rough, a senior fellow and director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute think tank, said that because Putin knows the U.S. is eager to end the war, Putin’s peace deal requirements are an attempt to turn up the heat on Ukraine.
Following Trump’s meeting with Putin and ahead of his meeting days later with Zelenskyy, the U.S. president put the onus on Ukraine to end the war – and said that Ukraine could end the war immediately if it agreed to cede Crimea to Russia, and abandon its bid for NATO membership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 18, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
«Putin managed to sidestep U.S. sanctions in Alaska and is content slogging away in Ukraine,» Rough told Fox News Digital Monday. «But he also recognizes that the U.S. wants this war to come to an end, so he has put forward a proposal intended to appeal to Washington in the hopes that the U.S. will put pressure on Ukraine to accept its terms. If he can divide the transatlantic alliance along the way, all the better. At the very least, it helps him stave off additional U.S. sanctions.»
John Hardie, Russia program deputy director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that Putin isn’t interested in agreeing to a deal unless his terms are included in it. In the meantime, Putin is utilizing diplomacy to avoid economic consequences, Hardie said.
«I think Putin does want a deal — but only if it’s on his terms,» Hardie told Fox News Digital Monday. «Until that happens, he’s bent on continuing the war, and Russia seeks to use diplomacy to forestall tougher U.S. economic pressure and redirect Trump’s ire from Moscow to Kyiv.»
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FIRST ON FOX: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is changing its policy manual to prevent illegal migrants who voted in elections or attempted to register to vote from receiving citizenship under new guidelines.
The policy update will also include USCIS initiating deportation proceedings against any illegal migrant who committed a form of voter fraud or claimed to be a U.S. citizen for any purpose or benefit.
«Illegal voting undermines the will of the American people and threatens the legitimacy of our elections,» USCIS spokesperson Matthew Tragesser told Fox News Digital. «Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, we are making changes to prevent and punish aliens who voted illegally in our elections from gaining U.S. citizenship.
President Donald Trump’s USCIS will prevent illegal migrants from receiving citizenship if they voted or attempted to vote. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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«Aliens who facilitate or perpetuate illegal voting face swift and severe consequences,» Tragesser added.
Under current USCIS guidelines, illegal migrants must demonstrate good moral character (GMC) to qualify for citizenship. The new guidelines, which will take effect Friday afternoon, specify that attempting to circumvent voter laws or unlawfully claiming to be a U.S. citizen would be a failure of GMC requirements and prevent an illegal migrant from applying for citizenship.
Fox News Digital obtained an internal leadership guidance memo that will be sent to employees at USCIS on Friday afternoon, which outlines the course of action for implementing the updated policy and clarifies that illegal migrants who fail to meet GMC will be issued a Notice to Appear (NTA) and be referred for criminal prosecution.
USCIS will update their guidelines on illegal migrant voting on Friday afternoon. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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Applications for passports and drivers’ licenses will also prevent illegal migrants from receiving citizenship and initiate the deportation process.
The move comes after President Donald Trump’s March executive order, titled «Preserving And Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,» which ordered the secretary of Homeland Security to access «appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered.»
Trump’s executive order was met by some legal challenges, including a lawsuit by 19 Democratic attorneys general and two federal judges in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., blocking portions of the order that outlined voter ID requirements.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an executive order. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Judge Denise J. Casper, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts that «the Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.»
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Despite the legal setbacks, President Trump remained determined to fulfill his campaign promises on revising immigration policy, including this latest policy update at USCIS.
The tightened restrictions and likely increase in deportations as the president continues to remove millions of illegal migrants who entered the country during the Biden administration.
People surround a car as it arrives carrying food donations at a makeshift camp for migrants seeking asylum in the United States at the border crossing Friday, March 12, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Last week, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital that the agency has arrested more than 359,000 illegal migrants and removed more than 332,000 illegal migrants from the U.S.
Preston Mizell is a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips can be sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and on X @MizellPreston
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