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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.
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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.