All Hail Our New Sea-Slug Overlords

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Because it's only a matter of time now until one of those things absorbs a human brain, and launches it's chlorophyll fueled plot of world domination.

Research led by University of Florida biologist Sidney Pierce shows the emerald marine creature Elysia chlorotica -- which shares North Atlantic coastal habitats with a species of algae called Vaucheria litorea -- has evolved, over countless millennia, to absorb some of the plant's photosynthesis-enabling genes into its own DNA.
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Sea slug sustains self with photosynthesis - Winnipeg Free Press
 
Also a slug who feeds on volcanic openings in the ocean floor that are 12,000 degrees or something inside like that. They are invincible.
 
What's the big deal...all we have to do is cause a nuclear winter. Ha! That'll show them!

What good is your photosynthesis now mr. sea slug!
 
Really, this is fucking amazing.

And not just the photosynthesis bit. These slugs manage to steal the photosynthesizing chloroplast from algae, and have stolen the genes to care for them. Evolution not through random mutation but via theft. This was not thought possible for multicellular life.
 
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