When an animal has such a slow metabolism ... The post Scientists Discovered That The Oldest Giant Clam Was Born Around 1499 CE. They Named It Ming. first on TwistedSifter.

In the sand surrounding coral reefs, the giant clam reigns supreme; they are massive, multi-colored, and statuesque. As the ...

They've got a really hard outside shell, like other crustaceans, and there's not much meat in the animal - there's less meat than in a crab. So there aren't a lot of other animals that are going to ...

One of those specimens, a clam, was nicknamed ‘Ming’ and ended up being the oldest recorded animal ever at 507 years old! To put that in perspective, when it was born, the Ming dynasty ruled ...

Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types ... The snail's ability to discern different intensities of light helps it navigate ...

The video captures a leech in Madagascar seemingly taking a giant leap, coiling up and then ... may be a survival technique broadly across the animal kingdom.

Mud from the flood plain periodically coated, covered and compressed the dead leaves, branches and animal carcasses in ... weighing more than a ton. This giant serpent looked something like ...

The clam was thought to have been born is ... The oldest known living land animal is Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise who is roughly 190 years old. From his native home in the Seychelles ...