Green slug is discovered to be part animal, part plant | MNN - Mother Nature Network
A new study by a University of South Florida researcher shows that a sea slug living in the marshes and creeks along the U.S. Atlantic coast is apparently half animal, half plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica has a plant chemical-making pathway working inside an animal body. And this is the first-known evidence of an animal to have that function.
A new study by a University of South Florida researcher shows that a sea slug living in the marshes and creeks along the U.S. Atlantic coast is apparently half animal, half plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica has a plant chemical-making pathway working inside an animal body. And this is the first-known evidence of an animal to have that function.
That sounds like it might be an important discovery. 
