Ming was born in 1499, just seven years after Christopher Columbus arrived in North America, and was still alive in 2006 until researchers. Use Compose + a + ~ and you can spell São Paulo correctly. A clam named Ming the Mollusk lived for 507 years. You already have a tilde key – it's the Spanish squiggle: ~. Recently a deep sea clam was discovered in the North Sea, with estimated age of 507 years Nicknamed Ming, it was the longest-lived mollusc discovered. For a capitalised version, just type capital C +, and Ç appears. Meet Ming the clam how do we know it is the oldest animal in the world Anna Holmes, 4 Mawrth 2020 Ocean Quahogs, called Arctica islandica by scientists, grow up to 13cm long and can reach great ages. A cedilla looks like a comma underneath a letter, so that's what you type: Compose + c + comma gets you ç. Need a Yen symbol? Just press Compose, then y, then an equals sign, and presto, ¥. The idea is simple: compose symbols that aren't on your keyboard by entering a sequence of ones that are. There are lots of ways to do this, such as going to, hunting down the one you need, and, well, copying it – but the least-known one is the easiest: a Compose key. What would 507 year old clam taste like? Tough, tender, subtle, strong flavour, etc? 24.78.190.Friday FOSS Fest In these globally-connected-from-the-spare-bedroom times, sometimes we all need to deal with folks from far-off lands, whose names or addresses contain exotic symbols that Anglophones rarely encounter: from François to František or maybe even ffoulkes. Regards, - Gott ( talk) 17:39, 20 December 2017 (UTC) Tasting old clam? Both names are included in the article, though, so that's okay, imHo. In 2013, a quahog clam known as Ming, believed to be the worlds oldest animal at 507 years old, was killed by scientists trying to tell how old it was. But the majority of the English-speaking media seems to call him/her Ming, so there. The clam was named Ming because it was born in 1499 when Ming Dynasty was in power in China just seven years after Columbus discovered the Americas. Ming the Clam was 507 years old, the oldest living animal in the world- that is, until scientists accidentally killed him while trying to figure out his age. The name of the article should in accordance to what the researchers who discovered the clam called it. Ming’s shell measured 3.42 inches long, 1.89 inches wide and 2.85 inches high (with a max height of 3.23 inches). Why? We can use gender neutral "they" or "s/he" Xinbenlv ( talk) 03:08, 11 June 2018 (UTC) Name Researchers at Bangor University accidentally killed the worlds oldest creature, Ming, a deep ocean clam believed to be 507 years old when they were trying. InedibleHulk ( talk) 05:54, 19 June 2012 (UTC) Ming was a nickname given to a specimen of the ocean quahog clam, that was dredged off the coast of Iceland in 2006 and whose age was calculated by countin.
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The name should be changed to Ming/Hafrún.Īny indications as to what Ming was packing? It would be nice to be able to use "he" or "she" instead of "it".
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The Ming name seems to have appeared in British media.
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The name of the clam should perhaps be updated, as the Icelandic researchers who found the clam named it Hafrún, a woman's name which translates roughly as "the mystery of the ocean" (Haf: The ocean, and +rún: rune also mystery when in names).