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The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy | Symbiosis may be more important to evolution than scientists once thought.

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The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy

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It appears to get all the food it needs for the rest of its life by way of photosynthesis, transforming light, water, and air into sugar, like a leaf
Can I get this? I'd like to function this way myself. How do I buy this??
- You don't have enough surface area to satisfy your energy needs that way.
  
  Thats just like, your opinion man.
  
  I am groot?
- It would be awesome to be able to sustain your life without anything else needing to die.
The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy
God I hate titles like this. I realize they need to 'jazz up the science' a bit but there is no such thing as Biological Orthodoxy. This sort of shit is spouted by conspiracy theorists like RFK jr. and his ilk - we don't need it in the Atlantic.
- Most of these articles are bullshit about science that is not new or clickbait articles. Modern day scientific articles are literal modern day clickbaits.
  
  In exchange for the remote possibility someone will actually endure that entire wall of text here are some cool scientific news publications that are actually interesting and don't do the lazy hype overly simplified narrative nonsense you are talking about.
  https://aeon.co/
  https://www.quantamagazine.org/
  https://grist.org/
  https://nautil.us/
  hakai is now defunct but it has a great history of marine-biology and marine-biology adjacent journalism
  https://hakaimagazine.com/
  ok the register is tech stuff, but it is often adjacent to science enough that it is a good news source as a science interested person.
  https://www.theregister.com/
  Also here on the fediverse check out !science@mander.xyz !earthscience@mander.xyz !biodiversity@mander.xyz !astronomy@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz
Well that was a very cool read.
Do you want a BioShock?!!! Because this is how you get a BioShock. Put the slug back and forget about it.

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