A couple days I introduced an awesome sea slug that eats algae and uses them to become photosynthetic. I thought it would be worth revisiting this marvelously plant-like animal for a couple reasons.

The brilliant emerald green sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, spends months living on sunlight just like plants. It’s been called the photosynthesizing sea slug in the past, but how it manages to do ...

The slugs take up these mini-machines, called chloroplasts, into their skin, which turns them emerald green. Experiments have shown that this sea slug, which looks like a little leaf an inch or ...

The authors present the first direct evidence that the emerald green sea slug's chromosomes have some genes that come from the algae it eats. How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for ...

Although, in the eastern emerald elysia, another sea slug belonging to the clade, Sacoglossa, resides along the east coast of the U.S. The eastern emerald elysia (below), like the leaf sheep ...

The authors present the first direct evidence that the emerald green sea slug's chromosomes have some genes that come from the algae it eats. These genes help sustain photosynthetic processes ...

In the 1970s scientists discovered a sea slug that has a very unique way to feed on sunlight. The emerald green sea slug eats algae — a type of plant that grows in the water. What’s really wil ...

chlorotica’s emerald hues dubbed them the “leaves that crawl.” Most sacoglossan sea slugs aren’t of the solar-powered ilk; they digest the chloroplasts along with everything else.

Photosynthetic Sea Slug Snarfs (And Steals) Algae DNA It’s considered the first direct evidence that the emerald green sea slug’s chromosomes acquired some “functional” genes from the algae.

Such statements may seem unnecessarily tragic in the face of interesting and exciting news, like this latest development regarding the Emerald Sea Slug; however, it is important to remember that ...