Solar-Powered Slugs

We need to eat food to fuel our bodies, but this special slug, called emerald elysia, can make food using sunlight - just like plants do!
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SOURCES:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.22.12333
https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.22
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/biological/aquatic-plants-and-algae/what-are-aquatic-plants-and-algae

Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/86147.php?from=287796
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/169537.php
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elysia-chlorotica-detail.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0.jpg