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Biogeodes, also known as Flesh Stones, are organisms that live encased in a rock deep underground. It is thought that they survive for millennia in this stable environment.

Breaking the rock and exposing the creature to outside air invariably kills it, making its study difficult.

Inconclusive genetic studies have suggested biogeodes descend from an ancient clade of sea urchins.

How they arrived underground, how they manage to survive and their method of reproduction remain a complete mystery to science.

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— Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953.

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— by Albert Joseph Penot