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One of the oldest living creature accidently killed during research in 2006

In the year 2006, the clam was pulled up from 262 feet deep water of the northern coast of Iceland. A team of scientists from Bangor university, United Kingdom, including Dr. Alan Wanamaker, Dr. Paul Butler, Professor James Scourse and Professor Chris Richardson, who were studying the long living clams as palimpsest of climate change, analysed the annual growth bands on the cross sectional surface of the hinge region of the shell, researchers announced that the clam was 405 years old.

The clam was initially named Ming by Sunday Times journalist, in reference to the Ming dynasty, during it was born. Later, the Icelandic researchers on the cruise which discovered the clam named it Hafrún. The actual sex of the clam, however, is unknown, as its reproductive state was recorded as "spent".

The new analysis of the clam has put it at 507 years old, which means it was born in 1499. It was the same year when Switzerland became it's own state, it's also the same year when French King Louis 12 got married, and Diane de poitiers, future mistress to another French King, Henry 2, was born.

The Ming's long life came to an end in 2006 when the British researchers – unaware of the animal's impressive age opened up it's she'll to examine it. In the process the clam died.

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