Most animals die through violence, hunting, diseases and accidents and not due to old age as man does!

Hence their maximum life span of the animals cannot be stated with great accuracy.

But if kept in safe surroundings they live to a mature ripe old age.

Marine animals are supported by the buoyancy of water. Their bodies do not get worn out due to the forces

of gravity – as in the case of the land living animals.

Cold blooded reptiles do not have a limiting adult size and keep on growing till they die. I saw a huge

turtle resembling a huge boulder and knew it was a turtle only when it started moving.

Scientist believe that if such animals are maintained in a safe surrounding they may live on for ever!