Not new but I don't see it having been posted.
1 posted on
01/02/2009 12:39:48 PM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
2 posted on
01/02/2009 12:59:33 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(Apparitions are in the eye of the beholder)
To: decimon
Here's lookin' atcha
3 posted on
01/02/2009 1:03:31 PM PST by
JoeProBono
(Apparitions are in the eye of the beholder)
To: decimon
To: decimon
Um, coral has photosynthetic zooxanthellae, which it is dependent upon. (No zooxanthellae = “bleaching”)
Also, almost all clams have zooxanthellae in their mantles. So this is nothing really new, and the reporter’s claim of “Now researchers have found one animal that does just that,” as if it had never existed in any animal until now, is false. What IS new is that I believe this is the first nudibranch discovered that has this sort of symbiotic relationship with algae.
To: decimon
chlorotica
9 posted on
01/02/2009 1:28:44 PM PST by
martin_fierro
(Rest in Peace, Marshall T.)
To: decimon; martin_fierro; neverdem
Elysia chlorotica is a lurid green sea slug, with a gelatinous leaf-shaped body
"Elysia chlorotica" sounds like a magazine (ahem) subscription.
12 posted on
01/02/2009 7:25:52 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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