These Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads When They Want a New Body

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Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t your average gastropods. First off, they’re members of sacoglossa, a clade of slugs known for taking the algae from marine plants and integrating the chloroplasts from that algae into their own cells,…Read more…

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Isaac SchultzThese Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads When They Want a New Body