You may have followed the story of Bubba, the 22-pound lobster caught off the coast of Massachusetts last week and recently moved to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium on Tuesday. The amazing Bubba "shrimped" his 1.5 pound bretheren and instilled shock and awe in onlookers. Recently published pictures showed how just one of Bubba's claws was bigger than a normal-sized boiler lobster. NICE staff member, T. Mac, noted that Bubba was actually bigger than her Jack Russell Terrier, and that he probably could have snapped her dog's neck with one swipe of his claw.

Well, as T. Mac also reported this morning, Bubba has sadly passed away. Big Bubba had outlived Presidents, the Cold War, even the Pet Rock phenomena, but in the end, the hub-bub surrounding him over the past week or so proved too much for this monster of the deep. Bubba passed away yesterday morning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Experts estimated Bubba to be anywhere between 50 and 100 years old.

Nature's wonders always help us to get connected with the basic facts of life. Bubba was once such wonder that helped to remind us that life is much larger than meets the eye.

D. Robert -- New York, NY