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Blue Dragon (not the weed) washing up on Texas Shores

Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:41 am
Posted by Winston Cup
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Member since May 2016
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Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:41 am


LINK

you baws going to the beach be careful

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The blue glaucaus, known more commonly as blue dragon, is a type of nudibranch or sea slug and officials with PINS call the sighting a “rare find."


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The blue dragons “get their vivid blue color from their food sources, which include Portuguese man-of-war and blue button jellyfish,” according to a past edition of the Padre Post newspaper, the spokesperson shared with KSAT. “They aren’t affected by the stinging cells (nematocysts) in these organisms, and they actually concentrate the nematocysts in cnidosacs (the black tips on the ‘fringes’) and store them for protection against larger predators.”

The Padre Post excerpt states that blue dragons spend most of their life “floating upside down at sea, traveling warm ocean currents, and capturing prey with [their] powerful venom.”





join me friends in celebrating the cerebral beauty that is the Blue Dragon of Texas

Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29454 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:42 am to
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blue dragon, is a type of nudibranch

RA'd for nudi
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:42 am to
I bet you could smoke that thing and get just as lit.
Posted by BBMcGee
TEAM BOOB
Member since Dec 2008
28713 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
but do they sting?

pretty neat looking.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139231 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
First Chinaman flu, then Chinaman tracker jackers, now this shite



Posted by Homey the Clown
Member since Feb 2009
6100 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
frick, now we got dragons in the water, murder hornets in the air, and covid on hard surfaces. We are all fricked.
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
46757 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
Can you lick it and trip like those frogs?
This post was edited on 5/12/20 at 10:44 am
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
62216 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
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a type of nudibranch


So, material for fapping?
Posted by Captain Crown
Member since Jun 2011
57325 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:43 am to
I can for sure see little kids picking that up
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38241 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:44 am to
cool. Thanks for posting.
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
117554 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:44 am to
It’s really pretty

Thread is not quite pecker quality, but it will do.
Posted by Winston Cup
Dallas Cowboys Fan
Member since May 2016
66987 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:45 am to
quote:

but do they sting?

yes, and the only cure is getting peed on
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76174 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:47 am to
If it makes a living out of eating Man of Wars (Men of Wars?) (Men of War?), I'm not gonna be dicking with it if I see one.
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
117554 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:49 am to
You can probably keep one in a tank in the barn next to your kids and goats
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
22281 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:49 am to
Heat up 'dat grease!
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
14225 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:49 am to
“Blue dragons are a predator of the Portuguese man-of-war. After eating, they move the stinging cells from the man-of-war to the end of their ‘fingers.’ Because they concentrate the stinging cells together, their sting can be more painful than a man-of-war’s,” a post on the PINS Facebook page states.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76174 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:50 am to
quote:

You can probably keep one in a tank in the barn next to your kids and goats



Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38241 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:50 am to
/men of war/







you're welcome
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
76174 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:50 am to
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men of war/







you're welcome



Thanks! I was in the weeds on that one.
Posted by Misnomer
Member since Apr 2020
3756 posts
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:56 am to


ETA I got stung by a Portuguese Man of War in early October and I still have “scars” that look like a chemical splash burn.

Frick that little critter if it can eat Man of War.
This post was edited on 5/12/20 at 11:01 am
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