Solar-Powered Hornet Found; Turns Light Into Electricity

In an animal kingdom first, insect's "skin" pigments convert sunlight into energy.

The hornet's yellow tissues contained the obscure pigment xanthopterin, which gives butterfly wings and mammal urine their color. 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com

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