Freakish Sea Slug

[Yarnchu]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34824610/ns/technology_and_science-science/?GT1=43001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica

Oddly enough, I found out about it while reading VGCat's twitter.

This thing can produce its own chlorophyll, which means that once it has digested enough chloroplasts from algae, it can start performing photosynthesis.

....I will be back later with a drawing of a Water/Grass Sea Slug fakemon.

 

[hopeandjoy]

...Well, it seems animals can preform photosynthesis.

...

BRB, relearning basic biology.

 

[Glitterbomb]

BRB, relearning basic biology.

I failed basic biology. :P

It's pretty cool how it can change color just by eating.

 

[Yarnchu]

Well, if we humans incorporated chloroplasts into our cells we would become green as well. Wait, I think it was chlorophyll that made plants green....I forgets.

 

[opaltiger]

Chlorophyll. Which is in chloroplasts by definition.

 

[Harlequin]

I created a species of photosynthesing dragons for a fantasy world, once. I liked them, they were cool.

But yeah. Those sea slugs are sweeeet.

 

[Momoharu]

If slugs can do that with plants, maybe humans can fly if we eat enough birds?

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

Nah, we'd need to eat dandelion seeds to fly.~

Woohoo, we are all part of a photosynthesization nation, baby.

 

[glitchedgamer]

Next time someone asks what animal I would want to be, I am soooo gonna say Elysia chlorotica.

 

[Steel Scyther]

Does this mean that iff we eat pepper pots, we'll turn into Daleks? EXTERMINATE!

 

[Arcanine]

Good. After mammals have learned how to fly and lay eggs, now slugs can do photosynthesis. Now I can go all "Look I know a thing you don't!" in class.

Also my biology book needs a revision >.>

 

[ZuZu]

Animals=friggin' WOW!!!

 

[opaltiger]

Also my biology book needs a revision >.>

No it doesn't.

 

[Arcanine]

No it doesn't.

Maybe it does. This year we're talking mostly about cells, so maybe it only needs to refer that some animals have chloroplasts in their cells.

 

[Mariodjw]

Very cool. But very unlikely that this will ever make it into humans. *sigh* Oh well...

 

[Scarborough Fair]

This! As if I needed another reason to find sea slugs awesome. Not to mention the ongoing personal joke between my friends and I over a photograph of the little bugger that I found lying in the hallway on two separate occasions. When do two different people drop the same photograph of a chlorophyll producing slug? A month apart, no less. It was a sign. A sign that...i dunno. But it was.

 

[Icalasari]

I remember reading about this!

I was thinking more of this:

Now we just need to figure out how to put these genes in frogs/toads/what the fuck ever Bulbasaur is, alter a plant so it can grow on the animal's back, figure out how to give the animal tentacles that are green in colour, and we will have a real life Pokemon...