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Lobsters have blue blood.
Lobsters have blue blood. is a Animal Fact in the Animal Facts category.
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Fact Information
The copper in their blood gives their blood a bluish tint. It is much like how iron in our blood causes our blood to be red.
Haemoglobin is a red pigment in blood that makes the blood red when it comes out into oxygen (that why when we bleed, our blood is red.) some animals do not have haemoglobin in blood, for example LOBSTERS! So this is why their blood is blue.

Finally yes lobsters have blue blood. So do some other animals like some varieties of crabs etc. This is because instead of haemoglobin, their protein to carry oxygen is haemocyanin. Its just like a copy or pigment of our own haemoglobin with one slight difference. That being hemoglobin carries oxygen with the help of iron but haemocyanin on the other hand uses copper. Iron oxidized turns red, copper oxidized goes blue, well not accurately the color blue there does seem to be a tint of green in it but thats about it.
you just had to be the special guy who didn't say "this isn't true" you had to say why -.- lol