Cool Animal of the Day: The Living Rock

Seriously, it’s a living rock. It’s a rock with guts. Innards if you will. It has no brain or sensory organs, but it is living. Get this – folks in Chile and Peru actually eat this thing. Meat Rock Stew City, man. It’s also completely immobile like a rock — it eats by sucking in water and filtering out microorganisms — and its clear blood mysteriously secretes a rare element called vanadium. Also, it’s born male, becomes hermaphroditic at puberty, and reproduces by tossing clouds of sperm and eggs into the surrounding water and hoping they knock together. Nature, you are CRAY-CRAY man. Just doing it up big per usual. Anywho, Living Rock.