For all the science lovers out there

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Scientists Kill World’s Oldest Animal to Find Its Age

A group of researchers working in Iceland in 2006 discovered a really old clam. They wanted to figure out just how old it could be, so they decided to open it up and count the growth rings along the clam’s hinge ligament. They got their answer — and it was shocking. They said the clam was 405 years old.

They’d found the oldest living animal in the world (excluding primitive metozoans). Only, it wasn’t living anymore, because opening it up had killed the clam.

http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/20...d-its-age/

Science has a tragic flaw at least some of the time.