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The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

Update: 2023-03-065
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Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants. Diving deep into these often overlooked creatures, invertebrate zoologist Michael Middlebrooks introduces the solar-powered slugs that lost their shells -- but gained the ability to directly harness the power of the sun.
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The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

Michael Middlebrooks