Teeny, tiny lobsters Pictures - CBS News Teeny, tiny lobsters Baby European lobsters from the Helgoland Biological Institute, part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, lie in cups before scientists released them into the North Sea at Helgoland Island, Germany, Aug. 3, 2013. Scientists released a total of 415 one-year-old lobsters as part of an effort to repopulate the lobster population around Helgoland. In the 19th century local fishermen caught up to 80,000 lobsters a year in the surrounding waters. This aggressive fishing, combined with the heavy allied bombing of the island during and after World War II, as well as other environmental factors, decimated the lobster population in the area. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images