Tridacna gigas - Giant Clam Shell (w/ stand) 865d67aa4edc341c546973c681668fa4 Perfect crystals are rare

Perfect crystals are rare

and often used as objects of ceremony and pageantry

His mother was a fifth generation jeweler and his father a second

it is theorized the beast was only able to hold onto its prey with its short arms long enough to bite enough flesh for a meal

baby teething and more

Tridacna gigas - Giant Clam Shell (w/ stand) 865d67aa4edc341c546973c681668fa4 Perfect crystals are rareTridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. These clams were known to indigenous peoples of East Asia for thousands of years and the Venetian scholar and explorer Antonio Pigafetta documented them in a journal as early as 1521. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they may weigh