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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So it’s MegaMan?

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• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The really interesting thing about costasiella kuroshimae is that its digestive system branches and goes up into all of those ‘leaves’, which is how the algae makes its way there to have its chloroplasts extracted.

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• SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So vampire photosynthesis.

  That’s metal af.

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  • CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or rogue photosynthesis.

    Also metal af

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• IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  kleptoplasty

  I like how it’s appropriate to call it “-plasty” twice (first in the referring to chloroplasts sense, and then again in the plastic surgery sense).

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• Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And Im pretty sure there are also jellyfish that live in symbyosis with algae that they carry along with them which photosynthesize, creating sugars for the jellyfish.

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  • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of Lichen! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen

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