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.
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Thato Mofolo
March 9, 2023 at 10:59 am
✌️✌️
saurabh naniwadekar
March 9, 2023 at 11:02 am
Mindblowing animals, thank you for your research 🙌
RV Sir
March 9, 2023 at 11:03 am
Great
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Nidup Jamtsho
March 9, 2023 at 11:10 am
Amazing!!!
djayjp
March 9, 2023 at 11:17 am
Believe it or not: research indicates that even humans photosynthesize following ingestion of chlorophyll by eating greens as the body is partly transparent to light, but the energy produced is negligible.
Ava Meza
March 9, 2023 at 11:17 am
this is incredible, new creature to look into! I always knew slugs were amazing creatures
Norma Lish
March 9, 2023 at 11:22 am
NERD! I love you. Never change.
MSWC Productions
March 9, 2023 at 11:53 am
My pet duck chase me in kitchen fast!!!
vasanth r
March 9, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Absolutely fascinating!
Lars Larsen
March 9, 2023 at 12:09 pm
There is no evidence they’re photosynthetic. This guy is just lying to you for clout.
emmanuel boakye
March 9, 2023 at 1:27 pm
chloroplast = photosynthasis?
TT Endjinn
March 9, 2023 at 12:57 pm
Fascinating and a great presentation. Always gives me a buzz seeing someone who is so obviously excited by their field.
SwedenTomasSmile
March 9, 2023 at 1:00 pm
Interesting!
Nesib Memmedrzayev
March 9, 2023 at 1:11 pm
I like this video
onjoFilms
March 9, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Maybe they’re blue, because that is the majority of light that reaches them.
emmanuel boakye
March 9, 2023 at 1:23 pm
I guess thier easy to study cause thier slow
Rhett Steed
March 9, 2023 at 1:28 pm
that is So cool
Максим Янсон
March 9, 2023 at 2:58 pm
Thanks for this video. Nice to know about such amazing animals. I hope in the future we can realize how they do it.
Ligia Sommers
March 9, 2023 at 3:02 pm
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉✨🙏🏻
lee morrison
March 9, 2023 at 4:12 pm
That means we can take the good parts of something, add it to our biological selfs to cure illnesses or protect from illnesses. Amazing, the elite will live forever one day. Using the words thieves is a bit strong, there adapting, surviving there surroundings, no wonder we got out of there 😂❤
Happy Home
March 9, 2023 at 4:26 pm
Odd question: is the human skin transparent enough such that green people could photosynthesize ? Fascinating topic.
Matthijs Meester
March 9, 2023 at 4:41 pm
So interesting
HenryManson
March 9, 2023 at 5:44 pm
Fascinating!
And the Fact that they figured out how to make Chlorophyll is astonishing!
yixuan_yx
March 9, 2023 at 8:58 pm
Interesting!
Travis Ross
March 9, 2023 at 11:04 pm
Go you slug guy!
Patrick McPheron
March 9, 2023 at 11:26 pm
I need a part 2 and part 3 and 4 ASAP!
Luciana Munhoz
March 10, 2023 at 1:39 am
Really amazing !
AI Joe: Artificial Intelligence for everyone.
March 10, 2023 at 3:36 am
I did not know that was possible. A new twist on life’s adaptability.
Alice Walker
March 10, 2023 at 9:35 am
I had no idea that there were any animals that could photosynthesise. This is a very cool topic!
SebEyes
March 10, 2023 at 9:37 am
Very interesting ! I won’t see Sea slugs the same now…
Michelle Veronica
March 10, 2023 at 10:12 am
I’m always fascinated with marine invertebrates but didn’t even think why some have blue color when it’s so rare for land vertibrates.
Cera Robert
March 10, 2023 at 11:52 am
Wonderful explanation.
Ty Gibson
March 10, 2023 at 5:21 pm
That Emerald Sea Slug
Kamlesh Gasva
March 10, 2023 at 9:47 pm
Now I also want to photosynthesize 🥺
Miriam Rosemary
March 11, 2023 at 4:14 am
This was awesome!!! I’ve always liked watching garden snails and slugs, but this is on a whole other level. Absolutely gorgeous, and it really blurs the line between what separates plants from animals. Fascinating.
Leila Luginbill
March 11, 2023 at 11:06 am
Has anyone tried injecting chloroplasts into a vertebrate animal cell? Inquiring minds need to know…I could increase my sun time and reduce the need for ingesting food.🤗
Invox
March 11, 2023 at 7:16 pm
A Ted with more questions than answers… Loved it.
Sager Binsal
March 12, 2023 at 6:57 am
7:39 Slugterra 🔫
Agui Moroni
March 12, 2023 at 6:28 pm
The best tedTalk I have heard so far. Very interesting!!
Eytan Voss
March 13, 2023 at 10:19 am
Thank you, such an interesting angle! Does anybody know of any biomimicry application for human or general to capture CO2?
Superkoopatrooper
March 13, 2023 at 9:22 pm
I thought aphids were the only animals capable of photosynthesis, this is really cool.
Guff
March 14, 2023 at 2:28 am
“You are what you eat” 🐌
Avi Richar
March 14, 2023 at 12:37 pm
i mean while the scifi implications are perhaps sciency fantasy more than anything with the rigorous potential to be questioned into actual problem-solvable reality, this does raise the interesting possibility for a really practical reason behind the idea that any ETs might most often be in the category of “little green men” …if you can cut out most (to all) of the food chain entirely and go straight to living off of starlight, space travel itself becomes an entirely different animal