Green Sea Slug

It's really interesting that an animal can steal genes from a plant and keep them for the duration of its entire life. The fact that a slug can manufacture chlorophyll is an amazing step in evolution for these animals. I didn't know that genes could flow across kingdoms. This slug is different from other slugs because it doesn't need other nutrients to keep its new talent working, it can just sunbathe and this is all very new. We would have to make a new way to class these plant animal hybrids because they are the first of their kind. This is fascinating that there can be a hybrid between plant an animal but it does make sense from an evolutionary standpoint that an animal would want to be able to never have to eat and just sunbathe.