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Sea Slug Steals Solar Power (lemmy.world)
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From Brian G Weber

Yesterday, I saw one of the weirdest and coolest sea slugs I've ever seen and it was in New Hampshire. This is Elysia chlorotica, a slug that eats algae and steals its chloroplasts to use for photosynthesis. Yes, this slug is solar powered! I saw this species back in 2022 at the same site, but this time there were literally hundreds of them! So cool. Many more pictures to come.

Captured with my Olympus OM-1 + 60mm macro lens.

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[–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm going to have to give this a look. Thanks!

It's always a shame when anyone doesn't get to finish their work. The manga industry seems pretty brutal. I've had things I followed where a few of the artists have gotten really sick or hospitalized trying to keep things going, or one day there just aren't any more chapters, and that's that.

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