Cheap Date

May 4, 2012 – 10:27 pm

Here’s a remarkable critter: a plant-animal chimera called Elysia chlorotica. Once it has dined on enough algae to prime its photosynthetic pump, it lives on nothing but sunlight, and never needs to eat again. Amazing.

More photos here.

Posted by Malcolm on at 10:27 pm, filed under Darwin and Biology, Curiosities. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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  1. TheBigHenry says

    ““Bizarre,” said Gary Martin, a crustacean biologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles.”

    Even more bizarre, I think, is that a crustacean became a biologist having a forename as his surname.

    Posted May 5, 2012 at 1:34 pm | Permalink

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