Spoiler alert: It was alive all this time.
One afternoon in November 2018, Jeff Goddard, a research associate at UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute, was poking at rocks and turning them over, in an attempt to find nudibranch sea slugs at Naples point, when he spotted a pair of small, translucent bivalves.. "But when they extended and started waving about a bright white-striped foot longer than their shell, I realized I had never seen this species before.
Valentich-Scott was surprised and intrigued. "I know this family of bivalves very well along the coast of the Americas. This was something I'd never seen before," he said. He told Goddard that he needed to see the animal in person to make a solid assessment. But the creature eluded Goddard when he returned to find it. This happened several times until he found the clam in March 2019, some nine trips later.
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