'Extinct' Clam From 30,000 Years Ago Turns Up Just Fine in California

Alan: She thinks I’m special. She thinks I’m smart.

Charlie: She thinks gazpacho is Pinocchio’s father!

41 posted on 11/19/2022 8:29:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

42 posted on 11/19/2022 8:29:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

I lost my harp in Sam Clam's disco. [/justthepunchline]

Thanks Red Badger. Just remember, ya can't call 'em bivalves, they're trans. And univalves have to be purged from our society. Thanks.

The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, chrono sort:

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds. Scientists have confirmed that a "stabilizing feedback" on 100,000-year timescales keeps global temperatures in check [11/16/2022]
A Native American Statue Will Replace [St.] Junipero Serra in Sacramento. Who Will it Honor? [11/16/2022]
The Urgent Quest To Find Banana's "Mystery Ancestors" (also see the Butter, Bread, and Baklava topics) [11/16/2022]
Ancient Christian monastery, possibly pre-dating Islam, found in UAE sand dunes [11/16/2022]
PHOTOS: Forrest Fenn's buried treasure hits the auction block [11/15/2022]
The Mystery Of Carthaginians In The Americas [11/15/2022]
Skulls are emerging on a Florida beach after Hurricane Nicole. Officials think it could be a Native American burial ground [11/15/2022]
Discovery of Er Blood Group System [11/15/2022]
New research on 5300-year-old Ötzi suggests there could be more ice mummies out there [11/12/2022]
Hagia Sophia Is in Danger, Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy Tells UNESCO [11/12/2022]
What Does the Bible Say About Getting Tattoos? [10/22/2018]

43 posted on 11/19/2022 9:01:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

Eventually, he snagged four specimens for study.

maybe the last for alive?

44 posted on 11/19/2022 9:03:51 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)

It Came From 28,000 BC!

But it was so small, nobody noticed it was here all along

Getcher mip-map-mop
And your brim-bram-broom
And clim-clam-clean up
The rim-ram-room
Cuz yer coo-coo-cooki’s
Comin’ home tonight...

Bivalves are bifurcated.

If you ask one it will tell you that it has a split personality.

That was bad...

5.56mm

51 posted on 11/20/2022 5:52:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

In California?

They are everywhere!..................

52 posted on 11/21/2022 5:44:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

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