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10-31-2007, 08:23
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| Head Mouse Trainer   |  Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It 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, commonly known as the ocean quahog, 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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10-31-2007, 11:25
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| NCO   |  Re: Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It If old age don't get you the British will!
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10-31-2007, 12:41
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| Dazed and Confused   | Re: Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It Yeah and after the work was done they boiled them up in a white wine bisque, before reducing it down with butter to form a sauce for the clams, which was then served over fresh pasta with crunchy bread on the side and a nice Pino Grigio! Damn you Rick Stein (UK Telly Seafood chef), you have even turned the men in white coats onto Gastro cooking! 
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10-31-2007, 12:46
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| NCO | Re: Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It LOL naah its Nigella's fault oooh la laa
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10-31-2007, 13:37
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| Dazed and Confused |  Re: Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It Quote:
Bonnie lassie though no? - hmm sure this was a post about clams and not a former chancellor's daughter, and where she rates on the 'Stroke-ability Scale' 
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10-31-2007, 18:27
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| Racy Ol' Lady   | Re: Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It I reckon y'all prefer the pretty girl to the clams -- in pictures, at least. 
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