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I shared my nursery with other embryos and juveniles, from clams and crabs to sea urchins and anemones.
This is the first time you've had clams, so what's going on?
Large clams, and when we opened them, they didn't look like a clam.
This is because every time I see them, I talk nonstop about giant clams all day, every day.
Giant clams are these massive and colorful shelled marine animals, the largest of its kind.
South Pacific legends once described giant clams as man-eaters that would lie in wait on the seabed to trap unsuspecting divers.
Unfortunately, the reality is, we are the giant clams' biggest threat.
Considered a delicacy throughout the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, giant clams have been traditionally fished as seafood.
Just for their muscles, giant clams were almost hunted to extinction between the 1960s and 1980s.
Giant clams, dead or alive, are not safe from us.
My fascination with giant clams got me started on conservation research to fill in the knowledge gaps on their ecology and behavior.
One of the discoveries that we made was that giant clams could walk across the seafloor.
To find out, we placed numerous baby clams on a grid.
While it can hard to imagine any movement in these enormous animals, giant clams up to 400 pounds can still walk, they just move slower.
During my PhD, I discovered more secrets about the giant clams.
It turns out that giant clams have a giant impact on coral reefs.
These multitasking clams are reef builders, food factories, shelters for shrimps and crabs and water filters, all rolled into one.
In a nutshell, giant clams play a major contributing role as residents of their own reef home, and just having them around keeps the reef healthy.
And because they can live up to 100 years old, giant clams make vital indicators of coral reef health.
So when giant clams start to disappear from coral reefs, their absence can serve as an alarm bell for scientists to start paying attention, similar to the canary in a coal mine.
But giant clams are endangered.
And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their conservation paramount.
So I stand here today to give a voice to the giant clams, because I care a whole lot for these amazing animals, and they deserve to be cared for.
It is time for the giant clams to step out of their shells, and show the world that they, too, can be the heroes of the oceans.
And living amongst the tangle of tube worms is an entire community of animals: shrimp, fish, lobsters, crab, clams and swarms of arthropods that are playing that dangerous game between over here is scalding hot and freezing cold.
They emerge from clams (nudge,nudge;wink,wink) in postures of absolute submission.
So they are forced to make an escape from the blood thirsty predator with a taste for mer-people with the help of a sea turtle named Cloud Strife, an octopus named Simon Belmont, a jumbo shrimp named Shinobi, and a manatee named Rosie O'Donnell, who they met while taking part amateur night of an oceanic strip club called Flippers, in the Arctic regions in order to earn some extra clams for their journey.
Moreover, China’s bellicose stance, together with the undefined ownership of the region and its fish stocks, has led to destructive overfishing, degrading the marine ecosystem and threatening endangered species, including sea turtles, sharks, and giant clams.
"Not even angel-wing clams or salps have ever given off such a powerful light.
Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at 20,000 francs; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering-pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top-shell snails--greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from the seas of China; the virtually unknown cone snail from the genus Coenodullus; every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa; a "glory-of-the-seas," the most valuable shell in the East Indies; finally, common periwinkles, delphinula snails, turret snails, violet snails, European cowries, volute snails, olive shells, miter shells, helmet shells, murex snails, whelks, harp shells, spiky periwinkles, triton snails, horn shells, spindle shells, conch shells, spider conchs, limpets, glass snails, sea butterflies-- every kind of delicate, fragile seashell that science has baptized with its most delightful names.