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World's oldest creature is KIlled by opening it up to check its age

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UPDATED: Sunday, November 17, 2013 13:26
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Friday, November 15, 2013 11:40 AM

JONGSSTRAW


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World's oldest creature is revealed to be 507-year-old shellfish called Ming – until scientists KILLED it by opening it up to check its age

Scientists initially thought the clam, named Ming, was 405 years old

Mistake was made as scientists couldn't clearly see Ming's growth rings

Researchers claim the creature could help unlock the secrets to a long life

It had already been confirmed as the oldest animal that ever lived.

But scientists who accidentally killed Ming the Mollusc, a deep sea clam dredged from the North Atlantic, have now discovered it was 100 years older than previously thought.

Following painstaking analysis, experts from Bangor University reckon the animal was born in 1499, making it 507 when it was found.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2505155/Worlds-oldest-c
reature-confirmed-507-years-old-scientists-KILLED-shellfish.html



First time in my life I ever felt sad for a clam. What a horrific and senseless death, all in the name of "science". Yeah, they said the same thing at Nuremberg.

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Friday, November 15, 2013 11:19 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Ming's two surviving children, Brett age 405 and Sylvia age 399, released a statement today concerning the death of their beloved mother.

"She was a very caring and loving mom with a big aortic valve. We are quite steamed about this incident, and will asking our attorney Shell E. Coli to file papers seeking damages."

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Friday, November 15, 2013 11:43 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"Yeah, they said the same thing at Nuremberg."

Clambake, anyone? Oh wait, that's JUST LIKE Nazi Germany - 'cause it's not like people kill and eat clams every day.


As evidence of "rape mentality"

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:11 PM
MAL4PREZ
And just remember, according to Rappy, the term befitting a women who wants the insurance she pays for to cover medications affecting her reproductive organs is

whore

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:23 PM
little rappy
The term applies.



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Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:08 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Wouldn't you like to see the brave soul who first looked at a clam and said..." Hmm, that looks like good eatin' ".



Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:39 AM

WHOZIT


The poor little thing died because a bunch of lefteys were trying to prove global warming, so far as we know these douchbags have killed more animals then global warming has.

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Sunday, November 17, 2013 1:26 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Originally posted by whozit:
The poor little thing died because a bunch of lefteys were trying to prove global warming, so far as we know these douchbags have killed more animals then global warming has.



The difference between the clam and global warming is the clam was REAL! And it never took billions of taxpayer dollars in grants to do self-serving bogus research.

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