Show HAVE LONG as DURATION OF LIFE salt water denizens attain age if scientific investigations are correct water particularly salt water beems to conduce to longevity there are gigantic mussels and oysters whose age is assumed to be combar able only with that of the cape verde baobab tree and the big tree of call forkla which live for 6 years in deed there appears no particular reason why mussels should ever die though it Is also true that consider ing the sort of life a mussel leads there seems no particular reason why it should ever have lived sea an emones again delicate and sensitive though they look when we see them in the rock pools may at tain great age sir john dalzell Da lyell a scottish naturalist captured in 1828 a sea anemone of the liver colored eort BO common around our shores its age was then estimated at seven years it flourished in edinburgh un til 1887 and was just attaining a vigor ous and sober maturity when from come unknown cause it died lon don mail |