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Amazing! I would never have guessed which is the animal that gets oldest on earth. Elephants? Turtles? Naaaa…it’s the quahog clam! No, not the bar in Family Guy, it’s really an animal: Ming, called after the Chinese dynsaty that rules when it was born (!), was counted to be between 405 and 410 years old. And to think that it might just have ended up in some boys seashell box from last year’s holiday…