Mysterious giant 'monster' species weighs 3 quintals

Giant clam with the scientific name Tridacna gigas, is the world's largest two-shell mollusk, discovered in 1521.

They are distributed mainly in the warm waters of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. They discovered them at a depth of about 20m above the sea level, where coral reefs are located.

Giant clams, if grown in a favorable environment, can reach a body size of 1.5 m, weigh 3 kg. Because of their huge, heavy body size, when they were 10 days old, they decided to choose a place to "settle down". Once you have chosen a suitable location, they will "settle down" there for life.

The unbelievable thing is that this clam lives very well. The life of a giant clam is 100 years old. Giant clams have extremely colorful colors, each with a different color and pattern. You cannot find a second child with duplicate colors.

Giant clams can achieve such incredible size by sucking in sugar and protein produced by billions of seaweed strands that live on their bodies.

In addition, they eat plankton in the water. They suck in all the water in the giant body, then blow the water out, keeping the organic matter.

In a shallow sea at low tide, there are many giant clams, one can see the columns of water spraying very high, that is because giant clams are filtering water for food.

As a bisexual species, each clam can perform its own process of laying eggs and launching sperm into water. Eggs are fertilized in the external environment. When they become young, they will float in the water like other fleets.

There are many legends that giant clams have eaten humans. There is a description of how they swallow a diver inside two giant caps. However, scientists voiced the unjust explanation for this giant clam.

They said: "It is impossible for this clam to eat someone's meat because their shell speed is very slow." "Moreover, if someone accidentally falls into their mouth, with the simple digestive apparatus of clam, it is difficult to" handle "human food."

Perhaps because of the surprise, fear of this giant body of the clam that the people there thought up a bad story about them. We have not found any evidence of this giant clam eating humans.

This clam not only has a huge body, but their meat is of high value. People use taps, clam meat processing many delicious dishes that indigenous people love.

In addition, people also use their shells to decorate, crushed powder to make lotion, even used as a bath for children.

Because of the massive exploitation, the number of this clam species has decreased at an alarming rate. Biologists are conducting research on breeding, breeding, to preserve this rare clam species.