“But it is senescence in the way that older people die of pneumonia.” But one question about lobsters' lifespans still remains. Scientists do not yet have a truly validated way of determining the age of lobsters. read more
The bigger a lobster, (usually) the greater its age. However, molting takes more and more energy as a lobster increases in size and the amount of effort it takes for even a 30-50 year old lobster to molt kills between 10% and 15% of the lobsters every year. read more