The 500-Million-Year-Old Creature You've Been Eating

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]You might be eating something older than the dinosaurs. Clams have been on Earth for over 500 million years. They survived every mass extinction, including the one that wiped out the T-Rex. Here's the wild part. A clam found off Iceland in 2006 was 507 years old. That means it was alive when Columbus sailed to America. And scientists figured out its age the same way you'd read a tree by counting the rings inside its shell. Clams don't have a brain, no eyes, no legs. Yet, they've outlasted almost everything on this planet. So, next time you're eating clam chowder, just know it's you're eating one of nature's greatest survivors.