{"id":6823,"date":"2012-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/8-tridacna-gigas-found-in-the-philipines\/"},"modified":"2012-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T23:00:00","slug":"8-tridacna-gigas-found-in-the-philipines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/8-tridacna-gigas-found-in-the-philipines\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Tridacna Gigas found in the Philipines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more a thing is rare in nature the more it’s appreciated, and if this thing even possesses miraculous characteristics<\/strong>, like a considerably large dimensions, then a possible finding may become a discovery of highest importance.<\/p>\n

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Last October<\/strong> two Philipine provinces had seen an incredible discovery<\/strong>, the extraordinary finding of a group of 8 Tridacna Gigas<\/strong> in the costal waters between Palawan and Mindoro provinces<\/strong>, during the Samong<\/strong> fishing, a mussel which commonly grows in those areas.<\/p>\n

Once taken from the seabed, these enormous oysters have been brought to a secret place where they have been examined by some specialists: the first two measure respectively 42 inches and 36 inches in diameter<\/strong>, with a 101kg treasure inside, identified as chalky concrection<\/strong> without the mother-of-pearl needed to properly call it a “pearl”, but on the other hand with a consistency more similar to porcelain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Two of the eight oysters have already been sold to Philipino-Chinese collectors<\/strong>, the 4 largest ones have been opened to see their content and verify its weight while the last two, the smallest ones, are still intact.<\/p>\n

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Despite the finding of such a big oyster didn’t bring to the discovery of an equal great pearl, there still have been such great discoveries in the past like, for example, the Lao Tze Pearl<\/strong> (or Pearl of Allah<\/strong>) which weights 6.4 kg<\/strong>, a trifle in comparison to the 100 kg of the chalky concrection just discovered, but with a staggering value of 93 milion dollars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more a thing is rare in nature the more it’s appreciated, and if this thing even possesses miraculous characteristics, like a considerably large dimensions, then a possible finding may become a discovery of highest importance. Last October two Philipine provinces had seen an incredible discovery, the extraordinary finding of a group of 8 Tridacna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pearls-and-curiosity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genisi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}