[FoxInSocks]

Ohhhh, I see. I thought the legend simply sounded silly, but I didn't see how illogical it was. Maybe a clam gobbled it up after the ship wrecked, or something.

One site I found says Tridacna gigas can live up to 40 years.

[Nataku X]

I doubt a clam gobbled it up... they photosynthesize with the big fleshy mantle, in addition to filtering calcium out of the water... they don't "eat" anything.

I want to own a Tridacna maxima myself but won't be able to have the metal halides required for a while...

[nopardons]

Clams don't produce nacre,which is what makes a pearl luminescent.So it doesn't matter how long a clam can live.And deformed pearls aren't worth much.To add even more insult to this lame story,if and it's a huge "IF" even some of this story is true,it's a cultured/man made pearl which is worth considerably less than a natural one;even if it's a Mikimoto cultured pearl!