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Pyura chilensis — the living rock

Pyura chilensis, as they call it in Chile, is weird to the eye and delicious to the tongue. Before you ask why anyone would eat a stone, it’s not a stone. It is a marine filter feeder similar to sea squirts but with no brain or sensory organs.

It is born a male, but it produces female organs and then reproduces on its own. Its blood contains a metal called vanadium, and it is a delicacy amongst the locals of Chile and Peru.

 

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