Photosynthetic salamander discovered

This is amazing!

I agree SV-001, that sure sounds amazing.

Absolutely incredible.

Wow! That is excellent. I have kept and propagated corals and knew of this type of relationship in inverts, but this is exciting news. When the scientific community learns something new it makes for a very good day!

I: photosynthetic humans next please??

I: photosynthetic humans next please?? I'd rather have bulbasaur.

I: photosynthetic humans next please?? A "green thumb" is only the beginning

Article on Nature While invertebrate species, like the Spotted Jellyfish, have been known to be symbiotically linked to photosynthesizing cells, this is the first example of a vertebrate with this ability. Once again us " know it all" humans get surprised by nature. Fantastic.

Wow..that is really neat. So the symbiotic relationship continues long after the salamander is born. Makes me wonder then if this couldn't also be possibly true for dinosaurs as well? I mean, such a huge creature might benefit from such a cooperation. Maybe? Anyways..really neat to read.

Photosynthetic humans. Now that we know vertebrates can do this, we have seen the first step to such a dream. It will be a while before we see it really happen, and I doubt the developed world will be the first testing ground. Photosynthesis takes the purpose out of wheat farming, or most of it anyway. Sugary snacks and grain based products would take a severe cut as our bodies got their energy from the sun. All modesty would be gone, naked sunbathing would be equivalent to eating. There was a sci-fi short story based on the idea of photosynthetic humans. It took place in Africa. There'd be le... [More]