Science is Fun Fridays!


Meet the Leaf Sheep sea slug, the only non-plant organism in the world that is able to photosynthesize.

The process is called kleptoplasty, which is taking chloroplasts from a food source and incorporating them into the consumer's cells.  As the sea sheep grazes on algae, it retains those chloroplasts and is able to survive for several months after photosynthesis.

Plus, they're adorable.




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