glaucus atlanticus sea slug - Google Search

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The 10 cute, beautiful but surprisingly dangerous animals: Let’s find out about these creatures that are marvelous to look at, but, menacing to deal with:

Photo by @save.our.plankton Glaucus atlanticus (common names include the sea swallow blue angel blue glaucus blue dragon blue sea slug and blue ocean slug) is a species of small blue sea slug a pelagic aeolid nudibranch a shell-less gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae. These sea slugs are pelagic: they float upside down by using the surface tension of the water to stay up where they are carried along by the winds and ocean currents. Glaucus atlanticus is camouflaged: the blue side of…

Blue Dragon, otherwise known as Glaucus Atlanticus

Glaucus Atlanticus Blue Dragon or Sea Swallow is a pelagic aeolid nudibranch found in the coastal waters of South Africa Europe and Australia - animal, glaucus, atlanticus, blue, dragon, swallow, pelagic, aeolid, nudibranch, found, coastal, waters, south, africa, europe, australia. Photorator photo.

It’s in our nature

Commission for @irazel ! Really love how this one came out! Was very fun to design a flying fish/shark inspired dragon 🐉🌊🐟 (not to mention dragons are my favourite!)