Oldest living animal is from Iceland

Posted by The Thor in Photo, Text, Wildlife Reykjavik
Monday, October 29. 2007

Scientist have discovered a clam living in Iceland to be the oldest living animal in the world. 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, was hauled up from waters 250 feet deep. The world oldest Clam called Ming apparently is between 405 and 410 years old. So it is not only people that get old in Iceland.

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I feel strangely proud that it was Welsh people who found it.

#1 Annie Rhiannon on 2008-04-07 22:35 (Reply)

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