I am listening to "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" the public radio news quiz show. It's my second favorite public radio show after "Marketplace."They just said that a scientific group in Wales recently dredged up a living four-hundred year old clam. You can read more about it here.
Naturally they had to kill it to find out how old it was though I don't see why.
One lump of flesh lived peacefully for between 405 and 410 years. I wonder how many babies it had? Oh Lord - can I eat an animal that has the potential to live so very much longer than I can? What does a clam know? Flesh that lived that long!
It looks like a regular quahog like you find all over the place on the U.S. East coast. In fact, I have a quahog shell not ten feet from where I'm sitting typing this that I picked up in Amagansett. Now I have to count it's rings.
I'm going to be thinking about this for quite some time.
Photo credit: Bangor University
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