Unique Animal Body Part of the Week: Eimer's Organ

I'd love to say that I've come face to face with a star-nosed mole and taken this picture, but then I'd like to say a lot of other things that also aren't true. Yet. These nearly-blind burrow-dwelling moles, the only moles that can actually swim, have 22 small independently movable appendages covered with 30,000 Eimer's organs at the tip of their noses. They have about six times as many touch receptors as humans, all on their nose, and they don't even need to use soap.