Alan Wanamaker

Alan Wanamaker

Alan Wanamaker is a Research Officer at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University. Wanamaker is notable for killing one of the oldest animals on Earth, when he scraped a 400 year old clam out of its shell and threw it into the ocean. Only later, upon examination of the shell, it turned out that the clam was between 405 and 410 years old.

References

* [http://www.sos.bangor.ac.uk/staff/php/staffdetails1.php?person=0980 Official homepage]
* [http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php?Id=382 400 year old Clam Found]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7066389.stm Ming the clam is oldest mollusc]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2754006.ece Ming the mollusc holds secret to long life]


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