Video: Watch a sea slug eat algae to nab some of its chloroplasts, and the genes that keep them functioning It’s the ultimate form of solar power: eat a plant, become photosynthetic.

The brilliant green sea slug Elysia chloroctica doesn't just look like the leaf of a plant: It functions like one, too. When it's supper time, the slug uses chloroplasts taken from local algae ...

Sea slug has taken genes from algae it eats, allowing it to photosynthesize like a plant. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 31, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 02 / 150203155925.htm ...

A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It's the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this ...

SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia ...

SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia ...

This raised the question of how they continue to thrive onboard sea slugs in the absence of their parent plant. The researchers found that in a complex process, some sacoglossans actually absorb ...

The brilliant emerald green sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, spends months living on sunlight just like plants. It’s been called the photosynthesizing sea slug in the past, but how it manages to do ...

Affectionately known as the “leaf sheep” or the “Shaun-the-sheep slug,” this little animal-plant hybrid is a unique specimen, indeed. At first glance, this tiny sea slug—measuring just a ...

The sea slug’s body is made up of a large gelatinous ... It uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans "like a Venus fly trap plant," like some jellies, anemones and tunicates.