Rare footage of a lobster shedding its skin! Seeing a lobster shed (or molt) its shell is apparently quite rare - some of our scientists who study rock lobster have never actually seen it happen. But this weekend they and a crowd at Science Week's Festival of Bright Ideas in Hobart got to see it live. The whole process took about 20-30 minutes. The juvenile lobster puffed itself up with water to break off its old shell, at the same time making its body bigger for its initially soft skin to quick