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Clam Said To Be The Oldest Living Animal.
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Mon 29 Oct, 2007 @ 6:26am |
 Coolness: 145255 | A clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived animal discovered.
Scientists said the mollusc, an ocean quahog clam, was aged between 405 and 410 years and could offer insights into the secrets of longevity. Researchers from Bangor University in north Wales said they calculated its age by counting rings on its shell. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest-lived animal was a clam found in 1982 aged 220. They are like tiny tape-recorders... sitting on the sea-bed and integrating signals about water temperature and food over time Professor Chris Richardson Bangor University Unofficially, another clam - found in an Icelandic museum - was discovered to be 374-years-old, Bangor University said, making their clam at least 31 years older. The clam, nicknamed Ming after the Chinese dynasty in power when it was born, was in its infancy when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing plays such as Othello and Hamlet. Professor Chris Richardson, from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences, told the BBC: "The growth-increments themselves provide a record of how the animal has varied in its growth-rate from year to year, and that varies according to climate, sea-water temperature and food supply. "And so by looking at these molluscs we can reconstruct the environment the animals grew in. They are like tiny tape-recorders, in effect, sitting on the sea-bed and integrating signals about water temperature and food over time." 'Escaping' old age Prof Richardson said the clam's discovery could help shed light on how some animals can live to extraordinary ages. "What's intriguing the Bangor group is how these animals have actually managed, in effect, to escape senescence [growing old]," he said. "One of the reasons we think is that the animals have got some difference in cell turnover rates that we would associate with much shorter-lived animals." He said the university had received money from the UK charity Help The Aged to help fund its research. [ news.bbc.co.uk ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» m-a-a a répondu le Wed 31 Oct, 2007 @ 11:24pm |
 Coolness: 31800 | Amazing, but it's a clam... Who the hell decided to test on it, instead of eating it?
Oh my Iceland relatives... so weird. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn a répondu le Thu 1 Nov, 2007 @ 10:19am |
 Coolness: 178700 | clams FTW!
(maybe being this old, it wouldn't taste very good lol.. And maybe it was already dead.) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch a répondu le Thu 1 Nov, 2007 @ 11:18am |
 Coolness: 162555 | Noooooooooo !!! Clams never die !!!!!!!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini a répondu le Thu 1 Nov, 2007 @ 10:57pm |
| Coolness: 145255 | clams are delicious... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch a répondu le Thu 1 Nov, 2007 @ 11:16pm |
| Coolness: 162555 | I'm sure Dagon was a Clam .... there's never been an accurate description of him anywayz. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn a répondu le Fri 2 Nov, 2007 @ 10:46am |
| Coolness: 178700 | yah but... a clam-god... doesn't sound too sanity-loss inducing... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch a répondu le Fri 2 Nov, 2007 @ 11:36am |
| Coolness: 162555 | Oh reall?
Now imagine a guy running in the streets, yelling that a Clam-God is bent over world domination .... 10$ down he's going to end up in a looooong-sleeved shirt soon. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD a répondu le Fri 2 Nov, 2007 @ 2:54pm |
 Coolness: 509615 | I wonder how big a pearl would be if it had made one |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» the_big_jo a répondu le Sat 3 Nov, 2007 @ 2:36pm |
 Coolness: 56640 | pearls come from oysters.... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» AlienZeD a répondu le Mon 5 Nov, 2007 @ 12:08pm |
| Coolness: 509615 | "Desirable pearls are produced by two very different groups of molluscan bivalves or clams: marine pearl oysters from the family Pteriidae and freshwater pearl mussels from the order Unionida, families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae. These two families of clams, although not closely related to one another, have shell linings that are composed of nacre, or "mother of pearl" as it is more commonly known. A natural pearl is entirely made from layers of nacre, using the same spontaneous process as is used in the creation of the nacre lining the shell." |
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