Came across this.
In short, the article writes about the discovery of a new creature that appears to be half animal, half plant. It appears that the slug has "stolen" the genes needed to allow the creature to photosynthesize.
They are even able to pass the genes to the next generation, although the babies will need to eat enough algae to steal the chloroplasts needed for photosynthesis to take place.
Imagine if we had chlorophyll in us....we would look like Na'vi's from the movie "Avatar" albeit green and not blue. And if we were broke, we would just lie in the sun to photosynthesize. Amazing!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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