Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, but we hope to derive lots of information from it,” postdoctoral scientist Al Wanamaker told London’s Guardian newspaper. “For our work, it’s a bonus, but it wasn’t good for this particular animal.
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British marine biologists on killing what may have been the world’s oldest animal - a member of a clam species dredged from waters north of Iceland and belived to be over 400 years old.
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