Fact Friday
Giant clams (Tridacna sp.) can be over three feet long. They are one of the longest living sea creatures, living for over 100 years! But don’t worry, their shells close very S-L-O-W-L-Y, so you won’t get any body parts stuck in one.
Photo © Michele Westmorland/iLCP
February 7, 2025
Pearlfish
Imagine the door to your home being an animal’s rear end. This is true for some species of pearlfish. They make their home in the intestines of sea cucumbers, coming and going through the animal’s cloaca. Some even feed on the innards of their host.
Carapus acus By Alessandro Pagano [CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0] via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carapus_acus.jpg.
