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*

[@peekal]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access yo can I have your internet

[@quangquach3888]

Lol

[@mehruhameed4595]

You are literally EVERYWHERE!!

[@feliscatusdaisannobakudan1597]

Ahhh it's you again. Should I call the cops?

[@Hygix_]

Bigfoot, someday I will hack your acc and find who are behind the screen

[@zephiek5400]

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

[@shiestyy04]

This comments makes me sad because I took apart a clam when I was fishing this summer, I was curious of what was inside the clam 😞😭

[@averymccay321]

I can go for clams right about now.

[@ellementia]

Zephie Kitawi I’m not gonna like it because I don’t wanna ruin the 69... remind me to like it if someone made it surpass 69.

[@spiritualdawg3623]

Zephie Kitawi litterally u dont know that stfu

[@NH-hq7ly]

Why? I mean I can fly and shoot lazer out of my eyes too if anyone asking

[@gutenman7112]

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

[@dinh6327]

Wdym

[@slava6653]

Like clams

[@Daisy-ge1ig]

@@aceshadowins1310 Adaptations take a long time to be put into effect. And you need to look up what the meaning of science truly is or else you wouldn't have made that simple minded comment. Take your foreign education somewhere else please.

[@aceshadowins1310]

@@Daisy-ge1ig it's not "foreign education" it's a little something called "common sense" you Americans don't have;) Learn HOW to think, not WHAT to think Mericans hahaha.

[@boopboop5231]

@@aceshadowins1310 I don't think science is common sense. :/

[@mugetsusaki2822]

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.

[@Sheilor_Noir]

Mugetsu 1012 it’s ok, honey is bee vomit and we love it just the same 🤣

[@mugetsusaki2822]

@@Sheilor_Noir 😂

[@The_Beast_666]

Mugetsu 1012 And honey is bee shit?

[@zyrillesadventurei5104]

So… pearl from Steven universe is vomit

[@xandermassallo9204]

@@zyrillesadventurei5104 hahahaha no

[@lostinthelookingglas]

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

[@muhammadadambinmohdrazihan9988]

Well mate. You missing out one of life greatest thing. You should try at least once in you lifetime

[@Tom19142]

Oh, pasta with clams it's the best!

[@FlashQuatsch]

Scallop sushi is 👌🏽👌🏽

[@willow190]

Elexiel i regret half of the decisions i made

[@xalpacazeu1332]

Keneki For The Win well cooked. People who eat them raw rip if they have liver deficiency

[@cmbdxxi7376]

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

[@apdroidgeek1737]

It was obvious, clams dont need a tongue, i do still call them a tongue though

[@raviasmara]

Same 😭🤣😂

[@derronong9331]

Yep, also used to call that part the "tongue"

[@drowSyG13]

Is pokemon to blame for this? Haha

[@Halite660]

ehh, it's neither a foot, we just call it like that, it obviously isn't a foot nor a tongue

[@amadouagne3405]

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”

[@gondong7304]

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

[@1person69races8]

Adorbsss

[@Sjalabais]

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

[@babyplum2837]

I don't know exactly but male clams spew out "the thing" and it floats in water until it meet the female clams.

[@Suesserto]

BL 69 this is true

[@sucrosecranium454]

Are u a teacher because I bet you say idk can you go to the bathroom?

[@iwatchstuffs7933]

I think it's salt or micro organisms such as phytoplanktons

[@catrinad2491]

How do they breathe do they have gils

[@barbatosrex1087]

Science Insider: shows geoduck clam My brain: Gintama flashbacks

[@aleesha239]

😂😂😂

[@oliviadickerson8202]

😂😂😂😂

[@epistarter1136]

Excited for the new season, has got a nice new art style but I'm going to have to re-watch it all :(

[@sighduck9789]

Not a reference I expected to find on this video to be honest

[@johnnyhshify]

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

[@cringefest7841]

war elven yeah... if you like eating snot.

[@andysux1]

Very true. They clean the water around then. They're filter feeders.

[@gobzanuff5078]

Everything they filter... You will eat it... Huehuehue....

[@cheeseguzzler6269]

They have mollusk farms lol Okay wooosh me or something I know this is a joke okay

[@fredriksvard2603]

It really isnt

[@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?

[@mandelorean6243]

Dude, bud,guy,pal, friend.... you can LITERALLY have ALL your questions answered, each or all with less than a sentence and one click!. For FREE, right now or ANYTIME you want 24/7

[@KingBookWorm]

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[@Fishyusu]

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[@doraem0n401]

Human : we must save environment. Clams : helping save envitonment by filtering water Also Human: clams taste good :)

[@briancooley8777]

It doesn’t exactly filter the water Clams are still animals that need to eat actual nutrients not toxic waste. Infact they expel waste too so it’s not like they are just a vacuum cleaner or something

[@zoomertoast3703]

I mean they do...

[@nmdin7016]

yeah it tatse good , what you expect ?

[@fupert]

A lot if things from the environment are tasty

[@dead1530]

@@fupert I eat a human arm and it will be tasty just add some salt

[@1TakoyakiStore]

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.

[@riannicole5499]

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

[@TruckStored]

Not gonna lie the shell kinda looks like the mouth

[@briancooley8777]

It’s because of spongebob lol

[@monsemaniaa]

@@briancooley8777 True, I always thought it was a tongue.

[@sohamdimber8573]

🤣🤣

[@heavythegreywolf]

@@monsemaniaa most people believed that was a tongue

[@Pythonfan3]

I've known that clams have feet exactly since 6th grade when I've first learned about it. It never left my memory because I was as shocked about this fact as probably you when you're watching this. I even drew a fishnet sock on the foot of the clam in the picture in my book.

[@sleed4639]

The ocean is pretty awesome

[@akhan373]

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

[@JiosWrld]

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

[@reecky3288]

😂

[@MB_36]

Wow, I heard those are very rare.

[@JiosWrld]

Ikr dude

[@yingmingxu5029]

What’s inside a clam? Deliciousness

[@m0rk19]

Sadly I'm allergic to shelled sea food 😥

[@The_Beast_666]

MarkandAndrew Dude you mean even crabs and lobsters?

[@m0rk19]

@@The_Beast_666 those are included too

[@lucassmith4847]

@@m0rk19 At least you saved tons of money on seafood.

[@geraniumbonbon]

*comedy*

[@lukie8315]

3:04 Try looking at it in a different way

[@usmarine3226]

Well this is better 3:24 HAHAHA

[@flushed9701]

Add those two together and... *boom*

[@DerZeKat6148]

Wtf

[@jaubertkeithvirtudazo1388]

:))

[@nathanwaltrip7220]

I wasnt the only one

[@zachos-un6py]

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"

[@TheTinkili]

I honestly hope so :(

[@marfisilva]

But they form pearls in response to irritants and clamp up when they feel out of water or threatened... So they must have some sensors I guess

[@TheTinkili]

@@marfisilva Yep. Maybe just not 'pain' receptors? For example we humans don't have pressure-pain receptors in the skin of our elbows. (You can pinch tge skin there as hard as you can, it doesn't hurt) Maybe clams have some sort of touch receptors or something 🤔

[@DarkZerol]

Our brain it's self can't feel pain, only the pain receptors extending to our skin, scalp and bones do.

[@ConstantChaos1]

*oysters Clams are complex enough to have the capacity to feel (we dont know if they do, but they are complex enough)

[@Blablablablabla392]

Pearls are like kidney stones for clams and oysters, and we collect them and see them as beautiful

[@yusriamilkassim4795]

Me: So lets claming Clams : get ready to Clam up

[@alyssamonte7]

I absolutely love the animated googly-eyes

[@jalonglover4488]

Clam: "Stop tickling my foot!"

[@hariharasudhan599]

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

[@khioneyui]

nah probably instinct. All living organisms has an instinct to live and survive.

[@eeshapradeep5584]

They will want to live right?

[@chaseisanintellectual6054]

Not feeling pain doesnt mean you cant die

[@xavierjones6048]

Lol I was like what kinda a question is that!? All living things want to live even if some organisms dont feel pain. It's a natural instinct. Even viruses which are alive/not alive want to survive by infecting other living beings!

[@JSerrato289]

Uhh to survive??

[@HelgaCavoli]

1:50 "to open up just BUTCHER the animal like it's nothing.

[@hunimoonz]

forreal they just kiilll it w no remorse

[@kensebego199]

They're doing it for science! That clam should be glad it's making such a contribution.

[@bloom4563]

@@kensebego199 Wtf bro they dont need it, humans are just killing animals like psychopaths

[@YourAssAintSafe]

Hate to break it to you but if he didnt something else would've alot messier than that and he didnt butcher it he cut two muscles holding it closed

[@moolah7037]

guessing y'all are vegans?

[@Horsie112]

Why I'm so excited about this video. I love these bizarre amazing creatures. They are just too cool.

[@gabrielanthony1325]

Thanks to coronavirus and KZbin i now am a MARINE BIOLOGIST

[@adama8927]

3:04 ok there buddy.

[@drunks1nner298]

The geoDICK clam God damn this clam even puts my longsword to shame We should exterminate em

[@jayb3556]

Please continue to do more of these videos on insects and species like this

[@Coouge]

Amazing! Clams have eyes... I didn’t know that.

[@mewhen9239]

Science insider: What's inside a clam? The guy named clam: 😳

[@cybersypie1194]

lol

[@TheRealGears]

SI: So, these are the muscles? Dall: yep Clam, in it's mind: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@MandMs05]

Clam, in its mind: "Hmmm yes... me exist... me do exist... maybe... idk i havent figured out i think therefore i am so idk if i am yet" *meanwhile muscles being severed* Clam: "hmmm... man it's kinda dark not having any eyes to see..."

[@Ehami2]

3:19 clam got me actin up

[@thetimberwolf100]

"What's inside the clam?" Me: Edible.

[@q-miiproductions878]

I’ve never seen a real-life giant clam actually move. The only time I’ve seen them move before was in Animal Crossing.

[@SingularPanda4]

Science Insider: What's inside a Clam? Me:Something my parents eat like hot Cheetos ...

[@user-ke4kz3in9j]

Yes, thank you, this is something I’ve always wondered.

[@Vinny_Capatony]

2:54 I never knew I was gonna see a picture of a clam projectile pooping today but hey now I feel more more cultured 😂👍🏽

[@annazikopoulos2668]

Where on Long Island was this done at?? I lived on Long Island my whole life and never seen this place. 😃

[@KittySnicker]

Now I understand the name of the Spongebob episode “Bye Bye Bivalve”!

[@shay1455]

the giant clams are so gorgeous !!!!!

[@squanchmastersquanch4376]

I remember I dissected my first clam in elementary school. It was pretty cool.

[@starjones1]

I feel bad for the clams harmed in the making of this video...

[@ansonhu5997]

This won’t stop me from eating clams whenever tf I can

[@WoahManny]

All power to you

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@WoahManny RIP Oceans and rivers

[@Itsbully06]

me: *_you got the stuff?_* dealer: *_i do_* dealer: *C L A M*

[@Ayumu2898]

Those eye animations are so adorable haha

[@hypernova3411]

Me eating while watching this My stomach: I have decided to turn myself inside out.

[@lol-kz5fv]

My family: bruh its christmas Me: ok cool but whats inside a clam?

[@leyenda6149]

What's in a clam? Tasty goodness!

[@Moodboard39]

Do mines with garlic, breadcrumbs .

[@stratosp8510]

Its all fun and games until you see a clam walking down the sidewalk with new timbs

[@jazztiger07]

This channel makes me feel big brain

[@ryunniesoriginal]

ikr

[@ayyjayy2583]

This comment makes me feel small brain

[@MultiverseMediaSpace]

Big brain makes me feel this channel.

[@shamsham2004]

Orders clams for dinner my iPhone heard it ...... gets home from dinner KZbin recommends that I watch this video so that’s why I am here

[@mikemartens8377]

Something similiar here.

[@vin_sirr8838]

I actually never thought about this

[@boxedupsalad5188]

This teaches me more than my teacher during science class

[@legendoflosers]

people : what's on your mind me :

[@pritalbamnodkar2620]

Up until now, I thought that the foot was actually a clam's tongue.

[@P-zero0]

imagine placing your arm inside one of these giant clams...

[@deionalexeigonzales]

You putting eyes on the clams are so cute

[@Sephricable]

Clam parallel universe: What's inside A Human

[@nidgithm]

when they said they went clamming i realized how stupid "fishing" sounds

[@aldosahagun3350]

for sure

[@jesusvera7941]

that's how conjugation works

[@nidgithm]

@@jesusvera7941 i meant like. it's clamming for clams, fishing for fish, but it's not dirting for dirt it's digging for dirt

[@jesusvera7941]

@@nidgithm hunting for hunters, oh

[@Victor_Marius]

Lobstering and oystering

[@HoLeeFuks]

You can actually open a clam easily by using two spoons as a lever and jam it on the hinge part. Its easier that going in the front.

[@trashbeats8633]

Really wanted to know more about them interesting

[@AndrewAce.]

0:07 - At least 12, I would assume...

[@Yusuf-fd9zx]

When they enter the hole, how do they ever get out??

[@kfcman5766]

Idk

[@sighduck9789]

If you were to dig a hole, what would you use to get out: Probably what you used to get in

[@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx]

@@sighduck9789 High Tides and Low Tides?

[@brendakrieger7000]

Fascinating topic, thank you🐚🐚🐚

[@SnoopyDoofie]

I once caught a fish on my fishing line that had a hook attached. I was surprised that a clam would actually try to eat bait.

[@growtopiacontent7359]

Me: Clam is a useless disabled fish that taste good. Insider: Clams have a feet

[@Altim4643]

lmao why are they disabled?

[@That_One_Guy...]

@@Altim4643 cause he's ignorant

[@iyoyoyoyoyoyoyo]

HAHAHA

[@iwatchstuffs7933]

@@Altim4643 because he's an idiot that thinks that he knows everything

[@emmaeriksson7155]

Clams are a freaking environmental hero! And oysters and so on. Love them so much for their work

[@ZGlove.]

Hey, Clam, big fan of your work.

[@syvhne]

The animation! I LOVEEEEE

[@mikesands4681]

I had hope to hear about other parts inside

[@jenniferbates2811]

I think that its weird that people eat them.

[@tacoslover4765]

Jennifer Bates anything could be weird to eat for someone

[@plagues895]

Jennifer your weird

[@jenniferbates2811]

@@plagues895 thanks!

[@jenniferbates2811]

@Saltyyy Kush420 🤣😂! Its a little odd for me because I have family that work at a bat sanctuary

[@jenniferbates2811]

@Saltyyy Kush420 no my aunt works at one in Massachusetts. Not sure where you live, but you can ask for help at a zoo or a sanctuary where you live.

[@RayMak]

I only see food

[@TeflonChannel]

I have never eaten a clam. Are they tasty?

[@RayMak]

@@TeflonChannel super tasty

[@cosmicram7516]

Hi

[@RayMak]

@@cosmicram7516 hi bro

[@cosmicram7516]

@@RayMak oh my god a verified youtuber

[@chrystellederueda6581]

Suggestion for the next video: what happens if people barf?

[@AwesomesMan]

“They filter marshes! And they’re delicious to eat!” Yea I’ll pass.

[@thelstan8562]

So we are taking in the waste we polluted into the water when we are eating clam?

[@MultiverseMediaSpace]

In the same way that you are taking in grass and bugs when you eat a steak.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

That's a specious analogy. It's more like ingesting all the mercury and PCBs when you eat fish.

[@MultiverseMediaSpace]

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z I think it's less specist than lazy and a poor analogy on my part, but thank you for assuming I'm a bigot before an idiot, lol.

[@noonesuspicious1423]

3:03 im thinking nasty thoughts, help

[@mason-ib7gt]

why is no one talking about how interesting the geoduck looks

[@Ryin88]

So wait, if farms make oysters go through a x amount of day cleansing period and I assume clams too, can they be eaten straight out of the water, say if you were on a deserted island?

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Poor clams; even disguising as a frigging rock doesn't save them from humans. 😒

[@ading4742]

Theyre not killing them just opened their mouth basically

[@CouragePope]

@@ading4742 he said he cut through the muscle which means that clam can never close again. It will die.

[@LazyCrazyGuy]

Nothing can be saved from humans. When we are finished with this planet there won't be anything left. We really, truly are a virus. I wish we could accept that fact and decide to do the right thing by not breeding any longer.

[@AC-br6xn]

Edwin Hernandez i agree to a certain extend but i know that there are still kind people in this world... i believe you are one of them :)

[@ozymandias1192]

Edwin Hernandez Deciding not to breed? You mean not doing the most fundamental things living things do?

[@cueshedreemurr5719]

Thats a foot? Thats a foot?! *I THOUGHT IT WAS A TONGUE* My LiFe HaS bEeN a LiE

[@josiahb4483]

Cueshe Dreemurr this was stolen

[@Dota-Sport]

3:26 clam lookin like a whole snack

[@STABBRClan]

Song at 0:57 is George Georgia - Silver Sunrays

[@wilfredchong279]

3:06 price in malaysia 🇲🇾

[@aimanhaikalthemalaysian7089]

I just realised that😂😂

[@AiraCamille]

Living in a tropical island in the Philippines.. clams, seafoods and shells etc are just a normal thing to eat. I just ate mussels and oysters dipped it in a spiced vinegar yum yum yum fresh from the ocean 😋

[@cosmosDiv]

sounds like eating ur gf out

[@darcu8205]

wow, that seems a lot of fun

[@maihaiki888]

You guys might think I'm stupid, but I am. At first when they said 'clam's foot' I was like " They have a foot in their mouth?"

[@izumishimomura8438]

people when eating the Clam: "OMG, this is so delicious" Me: "Where are the Clam's mouth?" Answer: 3:24 there are the Clam's Mouth

[@certified100barb5]

When i was around 6 years old i was swimming in the beach and i grabbed the wet sand and i saw a large crab in my hand

[@jellyacw8751]

how old r u now

[@adminscamp2563]

Old as grandpa

[@sorbet7216]

@@jellyacw8751 he went to the beach 2 years ago

[@certified100barb5]

@@jellyacw8751 18 😿

[@bowshockgalaxy]

Dang almost four foot,the biggest clam we found,so far

[@pranayxoxo]

They are soo essential for lakes you say and you end up eating them ;_; great!

[@lactobacillusprobiotic7029]

I want to eat some clam now.

[@yangxh9718]

Yeah especially 6am in bed now

[@dvmas]

菲菲Run same time zone

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

I actually had clam chowder for lunch today. Never again. 🤢

[@pinkyboy8576]

"We got a crap"

[@notDoryu]

No one: Clams: 👁 👁 🐚 🦶

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

Cloyster, a Bivalve Pokémon. Its shell is incredibly strong and resistant to a bomb. Its shell only opens when it attacks.

[@slt4u]

spongebob really taught me wrong

[@governorhunter734]

Disclaimer please about a clam being murdered for som yt video

[@songpoetry1]

I assume they ate it afterwards, so at least it's not a waste. I hope they did.

[@naturalstupidity201]

I once thought that an oyster was a clam

[@davidbenedictm.tanedo6633]

at 3:50 there is this big pearl that was found by a fisherman here in the phillipines and costs alotta pesos