Monday 29 October 2007

A (400 year old) clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland


"A (400 year old) clam dredged up off the coast of Iceland is thought to have been the longest-lived creature discovered."
"Can you imagine living for four centuries?  A team of scientists from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences believe they have found an animal which did just that, a quahog clam, Arctica islandica, which was living and growing on the seabed in the cold waters off the north coast of Iceland for around 400 years.

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