Posted on 11/13/2013 7:24:25 AM PST by smokingfrog
A clam named 'Ming' has been confirmed as the world’s oldest animal at 507 years old.
Ming saw off Queen Elizabeth I, the English Civil War, the entire Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars.
But its life came to an abrupt end seven years ago when scientists from Bangor University dredged the seabed near Iceland as part of a study into climate change.
Not knowing the long life of the mollusc, researchers at Bangor University opened its shell for analysis, killing Ming in the process.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Family photo of the Ming dynasty?
Yep, it was clamate change that did it.
Flash Gordon was unavailable for comment.
Sounds like a death panel.
ROFLMAO!...POST Of THE DAY!...........
The revised age for the clam was calculated from counting the rings on the OUTSIDE of his shell. Why couldn’t they have done that in the first place?
Was there a pearl inside?
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Mingy Pearl, but she comes with a price tag.
Obamacare-- Yeah, those death panels are tough... 
on anyone over 65.
Yeah, Bend, not to mention... 
us of the yellow persuasion--
That would be a rare find.
His brother was Ming the Merciless.
I saw a PBS program where scientists were putting radio transmitters on crows to track them.
One at a time they found their corpses and were scratching their heads about what was killing them.
It never occurred to them that the extra weight they had to carry from the radio transmitters could have anything to do with their deaths.
Idiots like these suck government grants and haunt the corridors of colleges.
scientists from Bangor University dredged the seabed near Iceland as part of a study into climate change.
Well, they sure changed HIS climate.
Did they find it in the clams casino?
You would have thought they would know what happened when the idiots cut down the oldest living Joshua tree.
http://climateaudit.org/2006/01/03/cutting-down-the-oldest-living-tree-in-the-world/
To facilitate compilation of a long-term tree-ring chronology for the Wheeler Peak area, one of the larger living bristlecone pines was sectioned. This tree, WPN-114, grew at an altitude of 10,750 feet on the gently sloping crest of a massive lateral moraine of Pleistocene age. The zite was relaitvely stable during the lifetime of the tree, the only appreciable change being an accumulation of avalanche-transported debris so that the present ground surface is about 2 ft above the original base of the tree.
WPN-114 had a dead crown 17 ft high, a living shoot 11 ft high and a 252-inch circumferfence 18 inches above the ground. The trunk was of the massive slab type (Schulman 1958). Bark was present along a single 14-inch wide north-facing strip. Lateral dieback had left 92% of the circumference devoid of bark. The south-facing (uphill) side of the tree had been so deeply eroded that the pith was missing below a point 76 inches above the ground (100 inches above the original base).
A horizontal slab from the interval 18-30 inches above the ground and a smaller piece including the pith 76 inches above the ground were cut from the tree and a smoothly finished 2-piece transverse section was prepared….The derived radius measured 2280 mm to the pith, 100 inches above the original base and encompasses 4844 measured rings…it may be tentatively concluded that WPN-114 begain growing about 4,900 years ago.
“Frankly, Scallop...I don’t give a clam!!!”
N'Yuk! N'Yuk! N'Yuk! ...
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