What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the atmosphere and turn it into solid wood? Before the industrial revolution, leaves…
The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays.
This is an animal called the leaf sheep: It’s a species of slug that is partially solar-powered, like a plant. Leaf sheep are kleptoplastic organisms that steal chloroplasts from algae, store t
