Half plant - Half animal

[James0816]

Some interesting articles coming out of late. Here's the most recent:

SeaSlug-HalfPlant-HalfAnimal

 

[jpappy789]

weeeirrrrddd

 

[Zaffy]

I wonder what they taste like.

 

[arachnar]

Cool, if they find out the mechanism for transfering the dna imagine what could be done with it.

 

[Michwol42795]

That's amazing!

 

[halfmoonplakat]

wow interesting!

 

[Amphiprion]

Yup, a good few of them. Sacoglossan slugs are well known for this, as well. The ones most people are familiar with are "lettuce" sea slugs in the genus Elysia. Sea slugs have also been shown to eat nematocysts (stinging cells) and transfer them to their branchiae, just like the algal chloroplasts. Fascinating animals to say the least.

 

[Jerzboi]

woah!
super weird!

 

[arise1dwr]

nature always finds a way.