new giant clam species found!!

[hobogato]

did anyone else see this article? it is thought to be one of if not the earliest example of over-exploitation of marine organisms by humans....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7588857.stm

[DrMark]

thanks Ace.
humans have been doing bad things to this planet for a long long time.
..........and continue to.
mark

[jc]

What evidence do they give for human's causing the clams extinction? Just how easy is it to harvest a clam with pre-civilization technology?

[cpreefguy]

Yep, Charles Delbeek did a presentation on clams at MACNA, and talked quite a bit about this new discovery. Good stuff

[SoLiD]

Pretty interesting. Thanks Ace.