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The Leaf Sheep Gets Its Energy From the Sun

2025-03-06

1 min read

This slug with what looks like leaves on its back lives in the sea and is appropriately known as a leaf slug. Its face appearance looks like a sheep, and hence the sea sheep and leaf sheep monickers. Its scientific name is Costasiella kuroshimae. What is really amazing with the leaf sheep is that it indirectly performs photosynthesis using the chloroplasts obtained by feeding on algae — and hence, like plants do, getting its energy from the sun.

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