It is!! Some sacoglossan sea slugs can decapitate themselves as a defense mechanism. The body then regrows from the head!
January 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
It is!! Some sacoglossan sea slugs can decapitate themselves as a defense mechanism. The body then regrows from the head!
OMG NO thank you for showing me i am obsessed with this now. so beautiful and cutieful... and thank you for showing me the sacoglossan one (that is my me!!!)
January 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
OMG NO thank you for showing me i am obsessed with this now. so beautiful and cutieful... and thank you for showing me the sacoglossan one (that is my me!!!)
Sacoglossan sea slugs are so fucking cool
December 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sacoglossan sea slugs are so fucking cool
This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
www.scientificamerican.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
Many members of the sacoglossan sea slug family are adapted to a kleptoplastic lifestyle, allowing them to (inefficiently) photosynthesize for brief periods when food is scarce.
But turning an animal cell into a plant cell is not a trivial task. Plants are specially adapted to keep chloroplasts.
But turning an animal cell into a plant cell is not a trivial task. Plants are specially adapted to keep chloroplasts.
Photosynthesis: On the art of stealing chloroplasts
Sea slugs increase the longevity of the chloroplasts they steal from algae by limiting the harmful side-effects of photosynthesis.
elifesciences.org
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Many members of the sacoglossan sea slug family are adapted to a kleptoplastic lifestyle, allowing them to (inefficiently) photosynthesize for brief periods when food is scarce.
But turning an animal cell into a plant cell is not a trivial task. Plants are specially adapted to keep chloroplasts.
But turning an animal cell into a plant cell is not a trivial task. Plants are specially adapted to keep chloroplasts.
well, i just made the list of things i would like to do!!
- sea slug art
- marker text art
- alien divinity writing
- multitiered hivemind writing
- sacoglossan writing
- little goody two shoes
- misericorde 2
- land of the lustrous
- videodrome
- sea slug art
- marker text art
- alien divinity writing
- multitiered hivemind writing
- sacoglossan writing
- little goody two shoes
- misericorde 2
- land of the lustrous
- videodrome
December 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
well, i just made the list of things i would like to do!!
- sea slug art
- marker text art
- alien divinity writing
- multitiered hivemind writing
- sacoglossan writing
- little goody two shoes
- misericorde 2
- land of the lustrous
- videodrome
- sea slug art
- marker text art
- alien divinity writing
- multitiered hivemind writing
- sacoglossan writing
- little goody two shoes
- misericorde 2
- land of the lustrous
- videodrome
Merry #Squidmas. Kiddo got his dad a plushie #sacoglossan. What a clever child. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasi...
December 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Merry #Squidmas. Kiddo got his dad a plushie #sacoglossan. What a clever child. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costasi...
okay i made one too...
ngl.link/sacoglossan
ngl.link/sacoglossan
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December 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
okay i made one too...
ngl.link/sacoglossan
ngl.link/sacoglossan
also we had a meeting with our new careers person and got to tell her about sacoglossans. so life is not too bad actually. joy, sacoglossan knowledge be upon ye!!
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
also we had a meeting with our new careers person and got to tell her about sacoglossans. so life is not too bad actually. joy, sacoglossan knowledge be upon ye!!
elyzia: after elysia, the sacoglossan genus (with the paradise etymology)
lysergy: acid
astralgia: pain of stars
ao: protohuman scream transliteration as well as my birth initials
pareidolia: seeing patterns in everything
atropoviridis: inevitably green
lysergy: acid
astralgia: pain of stars
ao: protohuman scream transliteration as well as my birth initials
pareidolia: seeing patterns in everything
atropoviridis: inevitably green
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
elyzia: after elysia, the sacoglossan genus (with the paradise etymology)
lysergy: acid
astralgia: pain of stars
ao: protohuman scream transliteration as well as my birth initials
pareidolia: seeing patterns in everything
atropoviridis: inevitably green
lysergy: acid
astralgia: pain of stars
ao: protohuman scream transliteration as well as my birth initials
pareidolia: seeing patterns in everything
atropoviridis: inevitably green
snails and slugs my best friends. i am a sacoglossan (kin thing but like soul level fr fr) myself!! :D ohhhh african fat tail gecko so beautiful and good. we want a leopard gecko as our first lizard creature probably!!! bc they are easy to care for and just the cutest little guys ever
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
snails and slugs my best friends. i am a sacoglossan (kin thing but like soul level fr fr) myself!! :D ohhhh african fat tail gecko so beautiful and good. we want a leopard gecko as our first lizard creature probably!!! bc they are easy to care for and just the cutest little guys ever
i think i should just be a sacoglossan actually:)
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
i think i should just be a sacoglossan actually:)
i am not immune to reasonably priced sacoglossan plushie..
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
i am not immune to reasonably priced sacoglossan plushie..
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not the only Sacoglossan sea slug superpower BTW
www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
(more on this link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
(more on this link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice
It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen
www.scientificamerican.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Not the only Sacoglossan sea slug superpower BTW
www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
(more on this link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
(more on this link: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Today in "yeah not everything s*cks in this world"
How Sacoglossan sea slugs steal sunlight-harnessing superpower
(Not an action movie but come on)
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
How Sacoglossan sea slugs steal sunlight-harnessing superpower
(Not an action movie but come on)
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
Solar-Powered Thieves: New Study Uncovers Animal Organelle That Sustains Photosynthesis from Stolen Chloroplasts - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
They look like crawling leaves, but these sea slugs are anything but ordinary. MCB Professor Nick Bellono calls them “the weirdest animal we’ve ever studied”—a bold claim from […]
www.mcb.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Today in "yeah not everything s*cks in this world"
How Sacoglossan sea slugs steal sunlight-harnessing superpower
(Not an action movie but come on)
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
How Sacoglossan sea slugs steal sunlight-harnessing superpower
(Not an action movie but come on)
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n...
if you don't know what a sacoglossan is, they're a type of sea slug that "steal" chloroplasts from the plants they eat, and they use them to photosynthesise. like, they actually photosynthesise in a way that is essential to their survival - some of them can survive on nothing but light for months!!
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
if you don't know what a sacoglossan is, they're a type of sea slug that "steal" chloroplasts from the plants they eat, and they use them to photosynthesise. like, they actually photosynthesise in a way that is essential to their survival - some of them can survive on nothing but light for months!!
Yes and no.
Yes because it makes sense that Sofia would spin stuff off for liability reasons; no because I haven't thought of anything she'd trust anyone enough to hand her technology to.
She has a few test cases in progress though like the Rescale Salon and her Sacoglossan trade deal.
Yes because it makes sense that Sofia would spin stuff off for liability reasons; no because I haven't thought of anything she'd trust anyone enough to hand her technology to.
She has a few test cases in progress though like the Rescale Salon and her Sacoglossan trade deal.
October 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yes and no.
Yes because it makes sense that Sofia would spin stuff off for liability reasons; no because I haven't thought of anything she'd trust anyone enough to hand her technology to.
She has a few test cases in progress though like the Rescale Salon and her Sacoglossan trade deal.
Yes because it makes sense that Sofia would spin stuff off for liability reasons; no because I haven't thought of anything she'd trust anyone enough to hand her technology to.
She has a few test cases in progress though like the Rescale Salon and her Sacoglossan trade deal.
September 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I imagine both Apidaet and Sacoglossan societies incorporate alot of intentional vertically into their architecture and the horizontal "ground floor," design of modern cities feels very weird to them.
"Why do you always enter on the bottom? It wastes so much time...,"
"Why do you always enter on the bottom? It wastes so much time...,"
September 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I imagine both Apidaet and Sacoglossan societies incorporate alot of intentional vertically into their architecture and the horizontal "ground floor," design of modern cities feels very weird to them.
"Why do you always enter on the bottom? It wastes so much time...,"
"Why do you always enter on the bottom? It wastes so much time...,"