Delightfully Useless

So I just read this article on Yahoo! News that says they've discovered a sea slug that splices genes from algae into its own DNA and gains the ability to produce chlorophyll! And it also steals the algae's chloroplasts, so it can convert sunlight into energy for itself, just like plants do!

Here's the linky, for as long as that works: Surprising Sea Slug Is Half-Plant, Half-Animal (by LiveScience staff writer Clara Moskowitz). Or, for the linkphobic and those who poke round these archives a couple years hence (hey, I do it), the text is under the cut.

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Isn't that just the coolest thing EVAR?!? *bounces*

(Yes, I am a geek!)