Image of the Week #48, June 26th, 2012:





From: Pyura chilensis: the closest thing to getting blood from a stone by Becky Crew at Running Ponies.

Source: Klaus Peter

Becky Crew of Running Ponies spotlights a truly strange organism – and delicacy – from Chile. Not the coolest geode ever, but another example that much of life on earth is stranger than we can imagine.