What's Inside A Clam?

What's inside a clam? A retractable foot, a siphon for sucking up water, powerful muscles, and sometimes a pearl. And you thought oysters were fancy.

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What's Inside A Clam?

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Science Insider: "What's inside a clam?"

Clams: *Confused screaming*

[gutenman]

Without clams, theres a whole lot of species wouldnt exist without them .

[mugetsusaki]

Just gonna say that Pearl's are clam boogers. Not kidding. Just like what happens in your nose, when something that irritates the clam enters inside it, it coats it in mucus that hardens over time and becomes the "pearl" we know.

[Sjalabais]

Explained basically three organs of the "inside". What about mating? How do they live off these "particles"?

[gondong]

2:36 I just love how they put a boot on a animated clam foot. 🤣

[zephiek]

for everyone asking: oysters can’t feel pain but clams can

[lostinthelookingglas]

I have never wanted to eat a clam before this. Now I definitely don’t...

[hlibushok]

I have so many questions now! How the insides of the giant clams look? How do clams make babies? How do they get their shells? How did they evolve this way?

[johnnyhshify]

Important for the environment so people are eating them because it is delicious.

[cmbdxxi]

I thought that its their tongue. MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE😂😭

[amadouagne]

The first humans to open a clam must have had trouble sleeping for the next couple of days. “Rock outside, M E A T inside”

[TakoyakiStore]

I have an early memory of being at a family party in Wisconsin and a 60 year old relative was opening live freshwater clams with his bare hands. So far I've never seen anyone else able to do that.

[doraemn]

Human : we must save environment.
Clams : helping save envitonment by filtering water

Also Human: clams taste good :)

[Cursedbltch]

Am I the only one who thought there foot was a tongue😭

[JiosWrld]

1:17 wow you got a clam with eyes on it!

[akhan]

Me: man I gotta get some sleep
Also me at 3 am : hmm what is inside a clam? Gotta research.

[zachos-unpy]

Is it true tho that clams can't feel pain because they don't have a nervous system? I guess you wouldn't mention that here since this isn't a video entitled "what's not inside of a clam"

[alyssamonte]

I absolutely love the animated googly-eyes

[yingmingxu]

What’s inside a clam?







Deliciousness

[hariharasudhan]

If it doesn't feel pain then why should it hide itself from external threats??