Name: The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs
Uploaded: 2023-03-06T15:45:10Z
Duration: 12 min 44 s
Description: 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.

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.

Michael Middlebrooks: The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs

The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs

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