Scallops can move, and they're shockingly fast

Most people think of scallops as little blobs of seafood that taste great with bacon. In reality, they're actually pretty fast swimmers. This rare footage of a scallop filmed at Port Phillip Bay, Australia, shows a live specimen pulling off some surprisingly quick moves.

[jinkodesuu]

this is the cutest thing i’ve ever seen

[averagewolfgirf]

Humans:
Scallop: Aight imma head out

[CLark-ykoz]

New to scallops, 100% respect. No more of that on menus. Little creatures 👏✌️

[stefantsarev]

I saw it in another video and thought it was CGI.
Nature never stops to amaze me.

[celenabrown]

Sadly I did not know they moved like this. I was today years old! I just ate them no questions asked.

[Blaineworld]

i thought they made this up for spongebob and only today i found out it was real

[Rirnemoen]

''hey fellow clam.. wait.. --scallop

[adamSmith_]

Ahh yes when the New York Post discovers that Science is real

[gilval]

Now I know why the gasoline company Chose the name shell that shellfish has high octane for speed.

[hectichive]

Wait how does shutting the shell in front of them, pushing the water forwards, propel them forward? Shouldn’t they move by pushing water out of their shell and moving backwards? Haha

[Stafernisy]

This scallop is not an example of a fast specimen, I must add. Probably the slowest scallop I’ve seen in a video lol.