I might suggest that Beethoven did not like what he perceived was Karl's emphasis on his deafness as the source of his genius. After all, he was a genius in music long before he lost his hearing. And the suggestion that he had to be afflicted in order to be original might not have sat well with him.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Sea Turtles can live over 100 years. The oldest recorded age of a turtle was 250 years in India. Scientists though are still unsure how old some turtles get, especially endemic species such as the Galapagos turtle that have lived for years in isolation. It is difficult to measure the age since it takes centuries, some guess that some could be around 400 to 500 years old. Source(s): wikianswers.com.
Sea Turtle History. The oldest fossils of turtles were found in Germany and date back 215 million years, during the Triassic period. 1 They are among the oldest fossils of four-legged animals and one of the Earthâs most ancient creatures.These ancestral turtles had completely formed shells and lived on land, in marshes.here are two groups of sea turtles: Dermochelyidae, including the Leatherback, are the most ancient sea turtles, the largest, and the only sea turtles without a hard shell; Cheloniidae, including the other six types of sea turtle, vary in size but all have a hard shell.