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Ming (c. 1498 or 1499–2006), also known as Hafrún, was an ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica, family Arcticidae) that was dredged off the coast of Iceland in 2006 and whose age was calculated by counting annual growth lines in the shell. Ming was the oldest individual (non-clonal) animal ever discovered whose age could be precisely determined.
This slow life style results in exceptional longevity, e.g., with a reported age, for Ming the clam, of 507 years. It is the longest lived non-colonial metazoan species with an authenticated lifespan. [4] [7] [8] It is unknown how long it could have lived had it not been collected alive by a 2006 expedition.
Ming (Hafrún) the Clam was the oldest animal, able to live 507 years! That's half a millennium! It was born in 1499 and died in 2006 due to freezing. Not even the oldest human is near that! The oldest human (Sister Andre) was born in 1904! The birthplace was underwater in China during the Ming Dynasty.
During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, he appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. [1] Sometimes credited as Charles B. Middleton, he is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.
The prequel, Merciless:The Rise of Ming depicts Ming's ascent to power over Mongo. In this version Emperor Krang, wishes to unite Mongo's five warring realms (Arboria, Ardentia, Aerie, Aquaria, and Frigia). Krang's son, Ming, eventually does so by force. [36] [37] In the later Dynamite Flash Gordon series, Mongo is the base of Ming's empire ...
In the 1996 animated series, Ming looks even more reptilian: he is a green, pointy-eared, sharp-toothed scaly alien, which cause the heroes to call him a "lizard". (Meanwhile, Aura has green skin, but is otherwise perfectly human.) In this version, Ming is presented as a more light-hearted, comic relief type of character.
Movie details life of immigrant and surgeon Dr. Ming Wang. ... At the age 21, in 1982, he arrived in the U.S. with $50 and a three-piece suit his mother bought him with her savings.
Thaao, an Andean condor born c. 1930, died at the age of 79 or 80 in 2010. [125] Fatou, a gorilla at the Berlin Zoo is the oldest gorilla ever at the age of 67. [126] A female Laysan albatross named Wisdom successfully laid an egg at Midway Atoll in December 2016, at the age of 66. As of 2017, she is the oldest known wild bird in the world. [127]