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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Animalia Stupendium: The Giant Clam

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Bored with dragons, the wizard Argomandanies turns his arcane attention to the fantastic fauna of the natural world. Welcome to Animalia Stupendium, a chronicle of Earth’s amazing biodiversity with all the enthusiasm of a fantasy monster book. In this episode, the wizard will consider the giant clam!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:06.6

There's a vile sickness in Abbas town.

0:10.4

You must excise it.

0:12.8

Dig into the deep earth and cut it out.

0:16.7

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0:20.0

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0:29.1

Listen to Havoc Town on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:37.4

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:44.8

Welcome to Animalia Spendium.

0:49.2

My name is Argo Mandanese, former keeper of the cauldron, current quester of the cauldron, I seem to have lost it,

0:59.6

and tireless creature chronicler. And as you know, mere monsters hold no mystery for me these days.

1:08.5

Dracoliches, I'm sorry to say, are no longer dracolicious.

1:12.6

Bore worms, sadly, live up to their name, but not in the way they should.

1:17.6

So instead, I turn my attention once more to the strange fauna of a land called Earth.

1:25.6

Travel with me, gentle reader, as we consider the Giant Clam.

1:31.3

Common name, Giant Clam.

1:33.3

Scientific classification, Tridactna Geigis.

1:36.3

Frequency and range, coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

1:40.3

Size, up to 550 pounds or 250 kilograms. diet filter-feeding omnivores with symbiosis.

1:48.0

Treasure Horde, Tridacna Pearls.

1:51.0

Challenge rating, 2.

1:53.0

Here in my home realm, giants are a dime a dozen, as are the gaping maws of underwater creatures.

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