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Scientists Claim World's Oldest Creature

Posted November 14, 2013 2:09 PM

From Crave: gorgeous gadgets and other crushworthy stuff. - CNET:

What doesn't kill you makes you older. In the case of the Ming clam, however, it stopped aging when scientists at Bangor University in Wales decided to see just how old it really was.

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11/14/2013 3:37 PM

I (sort of) know the feeling. I took some contractors to inspect a pinhole seepage on a potable water line...we inspected it too close and it turned into a spraying leak!

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11/15/2013 3:01 AM

That's a sad and sickening example of destructive testing.

....and even then they got it wrong!

What did they prove?

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11/15/2013 9:53 AM

Incompetence?

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11/15/2013 11:22 AM

Crusty clam casualty causes culpability concerning careless clinicians credentials ....

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11/18/2013 3:29 AM

All is fair in love and science?

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