Originally Posted by mns2k,Nov 30 2007, 04:11 PM

According to the Guinness Book of Records, the existing record for the longest-lived animal belongs to a 220 year old Arctica clam collected in 1982 from American waters. Unofficially, the record belongs to a 374 year old Icelandic clam which was found in a museum. Both these records appear to have been eclipsed by the latest specimen, whose age, between 405 and 410 years, has been assessed by counting the annual growth lines in the shell.

Originally Posted by gosixers215,Dec 14 2007, 03:31 PM

I'll take 60 or so years as a human being over 300+ as a clam. :comesbackinsecondlifeasarcticaclam: