Saturday 6 November 2010

Glaucus atlanticus is a bad boy!

This pretty looking thing is a type of marine slug known commonly as a Blue Dragon sea slug (among many other things)
And yes I know it looks like kyogre from pokemon.
I like this animal because as well as being pretty,it can kill you through your skin!
It achieves this by eating primarily poisonous jelly fish (well Portuguese man'o war which isn't technically a jelly fish.) and reusing the toxins for it's own gains.

Just so you know what you are looking at is it's underside, it floats just under the surface of the water using an air sack that makes it flip upside-down.

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