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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.
A clam shell (species Spisula solidissima) at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc.The word is often applied only to those that are deemed edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds.
Ming, 1980 jazz album by David Murray; Ming (clam), an individual clam, claimed to be the oldest living animal ever discovered; Ming class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarines built by China; Ming of Harlem, a tiger who lived in a New York apartment; Immingham, England, a Lincolnshire town often known as "Ming" or "Ming-Ming"
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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.
Shen (clam-monster) Shenlong, a dragon who is the master of storms and also a bringer of rain. Shennong; Shōjō; Shuhu beast, a wild beast with a horse's body and bird's wings, a human's face and a snake's tail. It likes to hug and lift people up. [7] Sky Fox (mythology), a golden Hulijing that has reached 1000 years of age.
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