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Bizarre sea creature washes ashore on a Gold Coast beach [Australia]
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| November 16, 2015
| David Strege
Posted on 11/18/2015 7:02:36 AM PST by ETL
Some say it's like something out of a science fiction movie, others say it's from another world. But the bizarre and dangerous sea creature a woman discovered washed ashore at Broadbeach along the Gold Coast of Australia is actually a blue dragon.
Lucinda Fry came across the creepy, electric-blue sea slug in Queensland and captured video of the little sea creature, which Daily Mail Australia posted: [video at link]
The nudibranch is not that big, measuring 1.2 inches at maturity, but it packs a punch.
"I have handled them before and wasn't stung, but I would not recommend anyone pick them up because they can have a painful sting," Professor Kylie Pitt of Griffith University told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
The sea creature was said to be following its favorite food source, bluebottles, also known as Portuguese man o' wars that have been blown onto Gold Coast shorelines by easterly winds. The blue dragons eat the stingers of the bluebottles.
"Instead of digesting the sting cells, they store them on the outside of their body," Pitt told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
Incidentally, the scientific name of the blue dragon is Glaucus atlanticus. But by any name, this sea creature is a strange one.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: australia; bluebottles; bluedragon; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; glaucusatlanticus; goldcoast; nudibranch; portuguesemanowars
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To: ETL
These pictures might be too much to take. It may remind some of the liberal relatives coming over for Thanksgiving ;-) Yes I am here until Tuesday, try the Veal ;-)
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:05:14 AM PST
by
taildragger
(Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
To: catbertz
As far as the marine life, it's amazing to see soo many crazy designs. Just imagine what might be lurking out in the cosmos. And all the bizarre life forms right here on Earth that have come and gone over the past several hundred million years.
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:07:55 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: shibumi
You’re welcome. And I agree. Can’t have Obama on our mind 24/7. We’d go nuts.
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:10:20 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: Rebelbase
Looks like a kin to Portuguese Man-O-War.These "Blue Dragons" are tiny. Only about 1.5 in.
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:17:26 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: ETL
"I got those Bluebama Slug Blues, just as blue as I can be....tra la"
Leni
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:18:52 AM PST
by
MinuteGal
("I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - Borax Obama)
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:27:34 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: All
Don't ask...
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:29:09 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: ETL
From Saturday Night Live, featuring Steve Martin and Bill Murray:
Tourist #2: What the hell is that?
Tourist #1: I don’t know what the hell that is!
Tourist #2: What in the hell is that?!
Tourist #1: Hey, you kids! Get away from there!
Tourist #2: I would not mess with that thing..
Tourist #1: Don’t put your lips on it!
Tourist #2: [ ever curious ] What the hell is this?
Tourist #1: Well.. get a photo of me with it, anyway!
[ Tourist #1 hands camera to Tourist #2, then walks away from camera view to have his picture taken ]
Tourist #2: Be careful with that thing. [ snaps Tourist #1’s picture, as spark of ingenuity develops on his face ] Oh, I know what that is!
Tourist #1: [ returns next to Tourist #2 ] Well, what the hell is it?!
Tourist #2: [ looks closer ] What is that thing..?
Tourist #1: I don’t even care what it is. [ pause ] What the hell is that?!
Tourist #2: I don’t know what the hell that thing is.
Tourist #1: Oh, I know what it is!
Tourist #2: [ seeing it ] Oh, yeah.. oh yeah.. [ chuckles ]
[ Tourist #1 & #2 walk away from the stage. A beat, before their heads peer back into frame, more inquisitive than ever. ]
Tourist #1: What the hell was that?!
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:31:43 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
What The Hell Is That?
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:35:38 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: ETL
Charming.
Call me when one of these washes up on the beach:
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posted on
11/18/2015 8:54:48 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: PLMerite
Call me when one of these washes up on the beachHello?? Are you there???
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posted on
11/18/2015 9:07:03 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
11/18/2015 9:10:23 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: JoeProBono
Since when is okay to post porn on FR?
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posted on
11/18/2015 9:20:06 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: catbertz
Thatâs some spicy tuna there! I think I see Charlie Sheen in the background. Anyone see Laz?
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posted on
11/18/2015 9:21:41 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: ETL
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posted on
11/18/2015 10:08:25 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(If you're not enraged...why?)
To: ETL
REALITY. Learn it. Love it. Live it. - The others are
FANTASY & probably photoshopped.
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posted on
11/18/2015 10:57:30 AM PST
by
Twinkie
(JOHN 3:16)
To: ETL
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posted on
11/18/2015 10:58:06 AM PST
by
Twinkie
(JOHN 3:16)
To: catbertz
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posted on
11/18/2015 11:03:49 AM PST
by
Moleman
To: ETL
Have *giant-size* lotion handy
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posted on
11/18/2015 11:09:28 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
To: Twinkie
Theyâre cute!Did you mean that reply for post #32?
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posted on
11/18/2015 11:09:52 AM PST
by
Ken H
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