Oops, we killed the oldest animal on the earth.

[Select Gex]

"It was largish -- these claims commonly live for 100 to 200 years, but we weren't expecting that it was going to be 400 years old!" After sectioning the clam's shell and counting the rings inside, the team calculated its age was between 405-410 years old. Of course, that was the end of the clam's life, but the scientists had no way of knowing that this clam would be a record-breaker.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3807618&page=1

 

[dragonflyreptiles]

that is interesting!

 

[dprince]

Very cool they found it. Very sucky that it's dead. :main_thumbsdown:

 

[Baker14]

never new they lived that long. Definitely sucks that it died, could have gotten even older.