Not a Plant, Not a Sheep. It’s a Photosynthesizing Slug!
But it’s dressed like a plant… and powers itself like one, too.
Meet the Leaf Sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae) — one of the smallest and strangest marvels of the sea.
Barely the size of a grain of rice, this creature has black ear-like tentacles, bead-black eyes, and a back covered in tiny green “leaves.”
Those aren’t leaves at all — they’re cerata, filled with stolen chloroplasts from the algae it eats.
Through a process called kleptoplasty, the Leaf Sheep turns sunlight into energy, making it one of the few animals on Earth to photosynthesize.
[h/t to Rick]
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