Question

Female lobsters lay 8,000-100,000 eggs each year and can live to be over 100 years old. Lobsters therefore have _______________ and ________________.

Answer 1

• A lobster's pregnancy is long: from mating to hatching takes perhaps twenty months. After mating, the female stores the sperm for many months. When she is ready to lay her eggs, she turns onto her back and cups her tail.
• Female lobsters carry their eggs (known as berries) beneath their abdomen, attached to structures called spinnerets.
• A female lobster tail is larger than a male lobster tail. This is because a female must have room to carry eggs.
• Some lobsters, however, do have extraordinarily long life spans. The American lobster (Homarus americanus) can live to at least 100 years, which is more than five times the life span of the Caribbean spiny lobster
• lobsters can theoretically live forever because getting older does not raise their chance of dying

ANSWER:

Female lobsters lay 8,000-100,000 eggs each year and can live to be over 100 years old. Lobsters therefore have large tails and extraordinarily long life spans