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Apr 10, 2026 11:21 PM
5ywjdPumpkinPrincess
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Xxyter
You're missing the best part. They don't produce their own chloroplasts, they use the ones from the algae they eat (kleptoplasty).
ChoonahFish
Give a slug a plant and he will eat for a day, teach him how to photosynthesise and he'll eat forever.
jamiedBreaker
AI fuckin bullshit picture.
KilroyLichking
the new pokemon are so cool
Servo87
Seems like that is an obvious pokemon addition.
FlatPlutoSociety
I know this is a real animal, but there is no creature on Earth that looks more like AI than this thing
maitreChameau
this one , more than 6000 species of corals and 1000 species of anemones. almost alone
Bombaso
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1bDVjaW9udWVtOTBvMGU1dHZ4NWZzM3BsNjBtM290ajdtcmtmNDBibCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/N7UQCEtGgRMRi/200w.webp
Vrh101
Ok we need this for humans ASAP
UserMCP
Still want a Grass/Water regional variant of Shellos.
Grumptious
You can't fool me. That's obviously a Pokemon.
RooGryphon
thats a grass/water type
DarkfireDragon
purplenarwhal
Shaymin that you?
SpikedDoggos
They're awesome and require a good camera and patience, but irks me that the image used is badly photoshop/AI
Here's one variety I got with my not crazy expensive camera
DrunkArchitect
Woah, neat!
schmonday
To be clear, the leaf sheep IS a real animal that mostly looks like in the image.
SpikedDoggos
Yes just much less cartoony, which is weird because the natural animal is crazy cute still
Kyzyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasiella_kuroshimae Costasiella kuroshimae (also known as a leaf slug, sea sheep, or leaf sheep) is a species of sacoglossan sea slug. Costasiella kuroshimae are shell-less marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Costasiellidae. Despite being animals, they indirectly perform photosynthesis, via kleptoplasty. Discovered in 1993 off the coast of the Japanese island Kuroshima, they have been found near Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
SpikedDoggos
Also a variety in Hawai'i, as well as the Gulf (we found them off of Cayman Brac)
kyndo
A lot of deep sea fish do something very similar to achieve bioluminescence.
Kyzyl
They aren't photosynthetic themselves, but play symbiotic host to algae that live inside their tissues.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
Their uniqueness amongst other animals that do similar things is that they incorporate the chlorplasts from the algae they eat into their own cells rather than forming a mutualistic relationship with the algae. Hence the term kleptoplasty (stealing plastids).