tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post6395576605248644161..comments2023-10-26T03:19:41.569-07:00Comments on Stephen Bodio's Querencia: This is the World's Oldest Living AnimalSteve Bodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-10372102631684666772008-12-05T09:00:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:00:00.000-08:00"Al Wanamaker", cool name!"Al Wanamaker", cool name!Calombo, Quilombo, Colombo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10650418887593314048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-7178000707890052642007-11-01T05:31:00.000-07:002007-11-01T05:31:00.000-07:00Good eating though, if you fix them right.Good eating though, if you fix them right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-24159990482819370062007-10-31T19:58:00.000-07:002007-10-31T19:58:00.000-07:00I'm all for science. For that matter, it is a moll...I'm all for science. For that matter, it is a mollusk, not famously self-aware like a whale, but the idea of cracking that clam and then determining that it was doing its thing around the time Jamestown was founded, that would be a little spooky and just downright sad.mdmnmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191436711956580423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-77644258181154922712007-10-31T09:28:00.000-07:002007-10-31T09:28:00.000-07:00It was a bowhead whale:http://www.boston.com/news/...It was a bowhead whale:<BR/><BR/>http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/13/harpoon_may_prove_whale_was_at_least_115_years_old/<BR/><BR/>And one of its bones had fragments of a type of whaling lance in use only from 1885-95.<BR/><BR/>I have heard apocryphal stories for years about old snapping turtles in the South that had musket balls or stone arrowheads embedded in their shells.Reid Farmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18382498430164817928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-9818586934582768182007-10-30T17:01:00.000-07:002007-10-30T17:01:00.000-07:00What about those right-- or was it bowhead-- whale...What about those right-- or was it bowhead-- whales with the stone spear points?Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.com