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Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal Kill - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 31st Oct, 2007 - 2:35am
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Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It
This is so unfortunate, I understand the need for research but bothering the poor animal and kill it just for that purpose seem very cruel to me, specially for an animal that has been around for more than 400 years.
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| British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal - that is, until they killed it. The team from Bangor University in Wales was dredging the waters north of Iceland as part of routine research when the unfortunate specimen, belonging to the clam species Arctica islandica, was hauled up from waters 250 feet deep. Only after researchers cut through its shell, which made it more of an ex-clam, and counted its growth rings did they realize how old it had been - between 405 and 410 years old. Another clam of the same species had been verified at 220 years old, and a third may have lived 374 years. But this most recent clam was the oldest yet. "Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, but we hope to derive lots of information from it," postdoctoral scientist Al Wanamaker told London's Guardian newspaper. "For our work, it's a bonus, but it wasn't good for this particular animal." |
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If this one is 410 years old then I will wager that there are loads more out there and more that are even older. But really who cares how old a clam lives....what really matters is how they taste! It would be nice though if they could age harvest the clams say nothing under 50 years and nothing over 100 years old. That way they get real expensive but never run out!
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