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A New York City restaurant has granted a reprieve to a special yellow crustacean after discovering that the little lobster was a 1-in-30-million find.

Ruby the lobster somehow found her way into the biweekly shipment of live lobsters to the Manhattan restaurant Burger & Lobster.

"We couldn't help but notice her," the U.S. director of operations for Burger & Lobster, Steven Costello, told ABC News today, "and that one of these things was not like the others."

He said of Ruby's unusual pigmentation, "She is like a ruby red color. She looks almost like a cooked lobster."

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