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Blood from stone – a delicacy


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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: Arvid Puschnig

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.

Bora Zivkovic About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.



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  1. 1. Glendon Mellow 9:39 am 06/27/2012

    It really does look like a tomato grown inside a rock.

    Link to this
  2. 2. verdai 4:27 pm 07/31/2012

    looks like a primate head, \
    are you sure it’s not?

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