This is a god damn Pokemon.
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Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
YES
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Before you fantasize how this could be used in humans in the future, producing that single thought cost more energy than leaf sheep produce via photosynthesis in their lifetime - feeding of it requires energy efficiency any warm-blooded animal just isn’t suited for.
Still cute though.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not chlorophyll, but retinol. Purple solar powered humanoids.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Instead of turning sunlight into sugars, what if we turned it into meth?
C126@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Pass. Charmader would wreck this guy.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I doubt that seeing is how this thing lives in the ocean
Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Charmander is a great driving force of global warming, this poor thing will be extinct in the blink of a great many eyes.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed, this feels like a water pokemon that can learn solar beam/solar blade, absorb, giga drain, etc.
C126@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lol, grass types live in the forest.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
RIght? Was literally in the middle of calling it a Pokemon when I saw this.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
they aren’t the only animal that does it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#Animals
lettruthout@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It looks like it was designed by Aardman Animations.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
It’s Shaun the Slug!
toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looks like the head gear piece my shaman wore in wow a long time ago
sozesoze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Looks more like it has a cows face. Like in cartoons. Two tiny black eyes close together and big nostrils far apart
CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shaun???
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Screw the Leaf Sheep. It’s all about the North American House Hippo.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t talk about my mother like that.
lemmur@szmer.info 11 months ago
Symbiotic cyanobacteria?
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cool, now I know how to call my spaceship in the next space game I’m gonna play.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Kinda:
Source: Costasiella kuroshimae
Faresh@lemmy.ml 11 months 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.
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of Lichen! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichen
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
So vampire photosynthesis.
That’s metal af.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or rogue photosynthesis.
Also metal af
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 11 months 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.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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).
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So it’s MegaMan?