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I wonder if there is a lobster that survived her. Lobsters are long-lived, they don't age (in the sense of slowly losing their fitness - senescence) and they o
by inglor_cz 9mo ago
I wonder if there is a lobster that survived her.
Lobsters are long-lived, they don't age (in the sense of slowly losing their fitness - senescence) and they only die when they grow too big and suffocate during moulting, or possibly catch some infection, or get killed by other animals/people.
A 105 y.o. lobster is plausible.
- nephihaha 9mo agoEarly reports by European colonists in New England suggest some of the lobsters back then were far bigger than today.
- linksnapzz 9mo agoMy grandpa said that it was not unusual to see 5-10pounders crawling around in the shallows at night...in the 1920s, in Narragansett Bay, not even offshore.
- Gracana 9mo agoI went looking for information on the oldest known lobster, and found this article about a 20lb lobster named George who was estimated to be 140 years old. Neat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(lobster) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(lobster)