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Watch What Happens When This Giant Clam Opens Up
What compels them to open up their shells? Watch the video above, and we will explore the topic further. Filter feeding is an ...
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Clams have a foot, muscles, and pearls inside of their shells
And that shell comes in all different sizes. There are small clams, like these, which are often used for cooking. And then there are giant clams, which can grow more than a meter long and weigh as ...
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Scientists Discovered That The Oldest Giant Clam Was Born Around 1499 CE. They Named It Ming.
The giant ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica ... “Annual band countin from the sectioned shell revealed that this clam lived for more than 405 years, making it the longest-lived mollusk ...
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10 Giant Clam Species Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
Protection under the Endangered Species Act is an important step toward helping the species rebound.” Giant clams — the largest grow to a shell length of 54 inches and weigh nearly 500 pounds — live ...
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IUCN Red List updated, giant clams ‘critically endangered’
Giant clams appear in the popular Nintendo game “Animal Crossing: New Horizons,” and its shell measures over a meter long. Overfishing has threatened the species. Hippocampus haema ...
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Bringing back ‘taklobo’ in Anilao
Various stakeholders implemented a Giant Clam Restocking Project in Anilao to save the endangered species from extinction. The March 15 activity included representatives from the local government of ...