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Australian Museum on Instagram: "Looking much like Shaun the Sheep’s cousin, this adorable creature is in fact a kind of sea slug. Known as Leaf Sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), this species is widely distributed across the waters of Asia, including reefs off the coast of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Amazingly, the Leaf Sheep has some photosynthetic abilities. As the seaslugs graze algae, they suck in the algae’s chloroplasts (a green photosynthetic organ) and store them within their Leaf Sheep Sea Slug, Sea Sheep, Leaf Sheep, Silly Sea Creatures, Sea Bunnies, Cool Sea Creatures, Weird Sea Creatures, Sea Slugs, Sea Slug

Australian Museum on Instagram: "Looking much like Shaun the Sheep’s cousin, this adorable creature is in fact a kind of sea slug. Known as Leaf Sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), this species is widely distributed across the waters of Asia, including reefs off the coast of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Amazingly, the Leaf Sheep has some photosynthetic abilities. As the seaslugs graze algae, they suck in the algae’s chloroplasts (a green photosynthetic organ) and store them within their

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