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The Mystery of Sea Creatures (5/5): The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

Jul 18, 2026 · 12m 18s
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Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants. Diving deep into these often overlooked creatures, invertebrate zoologist Michael Middlebrooks introduces the solar-powered slugs that lost their shells -- but gained the ability to directly harness the power of the sun. (This episode originally aired in 2023.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.