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Slowest Growing Creature

"The slowest-growing of all creatures on earth is the deep-sea clam, which takes a century to grow to a length of 0.31 inch." - excerpt from The Ocean Almanac by Robert Hendrickson, Doubleday, 1984, pg. 23.

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