Very Tiny Clam the Newest “Living Fossil”

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By Ken Ham

Imagine this: it’s November 2018, and a scientist is carefully turning over rocks in rocky tidal pools full of cold ocean water along the Southern California coast. He’s looking for nudibranchs. But, rather than a colorful sea slug, he spots something very small and translucent stuck to a rock—it’s a bivalve (clam) he’s never seen before. Fast forward four years and this scientist has a claim to fame as the discoverer of a new species. But it’s actually more interesting than that!

The species this researcher discovered wasn’t really a new species. It had been observed and documented before . …read more

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