DTG, firstly, from that perspective.

• lions can live for about twenty years or more, but something usually kills them first.

• these yuties live(or lived)on valgeuro, which is a

non-official ARK map, so they probably weren't made artificially.

• one thing I can agree on, as in the explorer notes it is said(by Helena walker to be precise)that megalodons, at least, mature in a week, mate every week, and have a gestation of. . . Yep, you guessed it, a week,

However, remember that creatures in ARK are generally spawned by the overseer, not bred, the overseer has a stash of DeoxyriboNucleic Acid of every creature, plant, and apparently rock

(the rocks in ARK must in fact be a relative of rock elementals who have permanently buried their organic bodies in the ground and eat dirt)

on the ARK, so it wouldn't matter how fast they breed or how long they live, being very practical, the overseers probably just made their creatures live for ages so they didn't have to make them too often, they simply make two batches, spawn one and stockpile the other.

Also, remember, as people who have played since early access and have one favourite tame they've kept all the five-ish years since ARK first appeared, the creatures just live for ever, so do the characters, you can have a character who lives for say, six hundred years, if you've played a long time, also, something indirectly implied in TIOTG, creatures which really would've lived about a year(tuso for instance)can live aaaaaaaages in the ARK universe, even if this is in an AU

(Alternate Universe as you obviously know),

So, eeehh