
07/13/2025
🌿🐌 Meet the Solar-Powered Sea Slug!
This isn’t science fiction — it’s Elysia chlorotica, a remarkable sea slug that steals the power of the sun.
Here’s how:
🪸 It eats algae…
🔬 Then hijacks their chloroplasts (the parts that do photosynthesis)…
☀️ And uses them to make its own food from sunlight — just like a plant!
It’s one of the only animals on Earth that can photosynthesize — a real-life fusion of animal and plant.
Talk about going green. 💚