Sea slug intro

Video about the solar-powered sea slug. For more information about this fascinating creature, go to http://sbe.umaine.edu/symbio/.

(c) Mary S. Tyler

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sea
• slug
• Elysia
• chlorotica
• solar
• powered

[Rhiree]

Just a comment to "MegaManXRockMan"

I figure you must be as prestigious and you have done as much research as Professor Mary Rumpho at the University of Maine? I mean, it would not make sense for someone who has done little to no research on a topic to call it "lies"

[sophophilo]

two words: The Hulk...?

[Rhiree]

I am appalled at this person's short and uneducated comment that leads me to believe that he would likely discount all of Mary Rumpho's accreditation on the grounds that she is female (Uneducated and sexist often come in lovely packages together)

[Rhiree]

I would also like to point out the fact that not only do the slugs live often enough to get some intense research done, it turns out that as a recent discovery by University of Maine that the slugs can be reared from eggs in a lab meaning that they can actually be sent to high schools for research!

[Rhiree]

Not to mention you stated it was a lie because "it usually fails" Even if only one slug in the history of science exhibited the characteristics of a plant to the point of photosynthesis it would still be an amazing phenomenon that would be worth both intense research and a serious look at how it is we view the horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes! This is so incredibly rare and obviously this individual believes that if they can not personally conceptualize it that it MUST not be true.

[Luckdragon]

I used a few of these for my science project in middle school but could not cultivate the required alga and all of them died. It was very depressing and I didn't do so well on the experiment portion of the project...