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Interesting play on words, as amazing as that sounds it could be true as there is no definite life expectancy on these seemingly immortal crustaceans.
But that doesn't mean they actually live forever or that they're immortal. As spectacular as that sounds, Nature balances them out fairly well. They can't die from aging alone, but they are still susceptible to death.
Another interesting fact is that lobsters will continue to grow the longer they live. The Guiness World Record holder for heaviest crustacean is an American lobster caught off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was just under 4ft long and weighed 44 solid pounds.
This lobster weighs 27lbs, look how huge it is!
George the Lobster was something of a mascot for a restraunt called City Crab and Seafood that weighed 20lbs and was estimated to be 140 years old. George was famously re-released into the wild by PETA.
You can determine the age of a lobster by size as it doesn't stop growing. They are known to grow to the size of large dogs. Who knows what could be hiding out in the depths of our oceans, perhaps somewhere in the world there is a gigantic specimen who slumbers until deep sea drilling awakens it. O_O
An enzyme called telomerase repairs lobster DNA as its broken down in time, allowing them to live without aging and grow to huge sizes.
Turns out the chances you'll ever see a lobster as big as George or the one pictured above is quite slim. As the lobster lives on, the chances of it dying becomes exponential. Since it continues to grow, that means it moves a little slower and has a bigger appetite and becomes a more noticeable target for predators. At the end of the day, it is supposed by National Geographic that the lobster's life span averages about 50 years in the wild.
But that doesn't mean they actually live forever or that they're immortal. As spectacular as that sounds, Nature balances them out fairly well. They can't die from aging alone, but they are still susceptible to death.
Another interesting fact is that lobsters will continue to grow the longer they live. The Guiness World Record holder for heaviest crustacean is an American lobster caught off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was just under 4ft long and weighed 44 solid pounds.
This lobster weighs 27lbs, look how huge it is!
George the Lobster was something of a mascot for a restraunt called City Crab and Seafood that weighed 20lbs and was estimated to be 140 years old. George was famously re-released into the wild by PETA.
You can determine the age of a lobster by size as it doesn't stop growing. They are known to grow to the size of large dogs. Who knows what could be hiding out in the depths of our oceans, perhaps somewhere in the world there is a gigantic specimen who slumbers until deep sea drilling awakens it. O_O
An enzyme called telomerase repairs lobster DNA as its broken down in time, allowing them to live without aging and grow to huge sizes.
Turns out the chances you'll ever see a lobster as big as George or the one pictured above is quite slim. As the lobster lives on, the chances of it dying becomes exponential. Since it continues to grow, that means it moves a little slower and has a bigger appetite and becomes a more noticeable target for predators. At the end of the day, it is supposed by National Geographic that the lobster's life span averages about 50 years in the wild.
