# Andes giant-oyster claim: source notes
Reviewed October 18, 2026. Published with user approval.

## Claim source
Oldman Tales, Facebook Reel 1782089709706295.
Supplied URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Dd9FzWGj9/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Canonical URL: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1782089709706295/
The public caption, video, thumbnail, metadata and audio were captured. Representative frames were inspected. H.264/AAC delivery copy created; original preserved privately. The montage includes illustrative water/flood imagery; this is not a field-verification video.

## Checked distinctions
- February 28, 2001 Emol/Orbe report attributes the discovery to Arturo Vildozola. Reporting is not independent specimen verification.
- Original Spanish text says 3.5 metres in circumference, not across. No estimated diameter is assigned to irregular objects.
- Creation.com article introduction acknowledges fossil-oyster vs concretion disagreement. The directly extracted article body did not expose the dated 2014 correction appearing in search indexing, so this publication does not rely on a verbatim dated correction or claim a specimen determination.
- Geological Society explains subduction, sediment accretion and folding/crustal thickening in the Andes. This is geological context, not validation of these particular objects.
- Guinness gives 35.5 cm / 13.97 inches for the published 2013 oyster record, not an absolute biological maximum.
- No field inspection, specimen testing or independent confirmation of 500 enormous oysters was established by this review. No finding about the truth or falsity of religious belief is asserted.

## Source URLs
- Original reported discovery: https://www.emol.com/noticias/tecnologia/2001/02/28/47467/hallan-fosiles-de-ostras-gigantes-en-cordillera-peruana.html
- Later creationist article and disputed identification: https://creation.com/en/articles/giant-oysters-on-the-mountain
- Geological Society: Andes: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap3-Plate-Margins/Convergent/Oceanic-continental.html
- Published oyster record: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-oyster

## Automated speech transcript (approximate; not a verbatim-certified transcript)
Listen to this, paleontologists found million-year-old fossils high in Peru's Andes Mountains, that some believe are evidence of the great flood of Noah. 500 fossil oysters, nearly two miles above sea level, some measuring up to 11 feet across. The largest living oyster today reaches only 14 inches. Yet, if they're wrong, what else is buried up there? 
Automated timing exceeded the media duration at the end; timing is not published as reliable. Claims were checked against caption and source trail.