Green eggs power solar salamanders

Close up of a single egg cell containing a salamander embryo and numerous algae growing within the egg. Source.

Scientists from the University of Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada have discovered photosynthetic algae living inside embryonic cells of the spotted salamander, providing them with extra power like a mean green energy drink. If true, this is the first known example of a vertebrate acquiring a new symbiont. The spotted salamander is a salamander species [...]