Florida man finds giant clam estimated to be 214 years old

A person in Florida was strolling along with his household on a seaside when he discovered an abnormally giant clam. It seems, it was not solely huge, however extraordinarily previous – and dates again to 1809.

Gulf Specimen Marine Lab, a analysis lab and aquarium, mentioned Blaine Parker was on Alligator Level, a Florida seaside on the Gulf of Mexico, when he discovered the quahog clam.

Most of those clams are 2.8 to 4.3 inches, in keeping with the lab, however Parker’s was a six inches and a couple of.6 kilos.

Quahogs have concentric progress rings, in keeping with NOAA. Just like the rings contained in the timber, the quantity rings on the clam’s shel inform its age.

Parker counted 214 rings on the clam – relationship it again to 1809. That occurs to be the yr President Abraham Lincoln was born. So, the clam was given a really apropos identify: Abrer-clam Lincoln. 

These clams are sometimes harvested to eat and that’s precisely what Parker was trying to do with it, pondering he’d get at the least two servings of chowder out of the enormous mollusk. “We had been simply going to eat it, however we considered it some time and figured it was most likely fairly particular. So, we did not need to kill it,” he instructed the Tallahassee Democrat.

As a substitute, he took it to the lab, the place he works, in keeping with the publication. Aber-clam Lincoln was attracting about 100 guests a day, however final week, caretakers on the lab launched it again into the Gulf of Mexico