Rip "ming" 1499-2006

How did they kill it?

You don't just kill something like that by mistake

They wanted to take a sample or something to determine how old the bivalve was but they ended up killing the clam I'm not sure how though sorry

they were collecting a bunch of them to see how climate has changed over time, and these creatures were great ways to tell that because of how old they usually are, so when they'd find one, they'd have to open it up to see its age (counting the rings like on a tree). sadly Ming was far too old to have taken the strain of being opened and died in the process. but the scientists had no way of knowing they'd kill it or how old it was, so can't really blame them too much.

Like the world a oldest tree

*worlds oldest

Scumbag scientists

Thats so god damn pretensious