Strange creatures (4) - Sea slugs
With blue skin and a dragon-like torso, it glitters on a sunny beach like a rare animal from a fairy tale. It looks beautiful, but it's actually dangerous. It can hunt highly toxic jellyfish hundreds of times larger than itself and appropriate the toxins in its prey for its own reasons. It is also known as the god of the sea dancing on the tip of a knife.
Sea slugs
It is not a single animal, but a common name used to describe some marine invertebrates resembling terrestrial slugs. There are many seemingly magical creatures among these animals, which are one of the most exotic and wonderful little-known animals in the world, also called sea hares. You can associate it with the image of a mythical dragon, but it's much smaller (only one to two inches long) than the fictional creature of the legend.
Colorful sea slugs
In addition to sea hares, there are nicknames such as manatee, sea deer, and sea unicorn, which are named for a pair of antennae similar to long ears (horns) on their heads. In the sea, marine shellfish are their close relatives, and there are ugly relatives on land, namely land slugs, and the common slugs are one of them. In comparison, the body of sea slugs is really beautiful. The picture shows a red fan-feathered sea slug, swaying in the sea with a silky texture.
The life of the sea slugs is upside down, clinging to the surface of the water and leaving the wind and currents at the mercy of the wind. To camouflage themselves in the environment, their bodies are blue. They collect and store cnidians in their own tissues and use them to resist anything that interferes with them. Treating sea noseworms can cause painful, even dangerously tingling.
Sea slugs
Japanese scientists have discovered that two species of cystoglossalidae can grow new bodies with only one head.
At first, it was discovered that the head of a sea-nosed worm in the tank had fallen off. Everyone thought it was dead. Unexpectedly, after a few hours, the lonely seanose worm began eating the algae and grew a new body over the next three weeks.
Although the body of the headless seanose worm can continue to live for a few days to a few months, it cannot grow a new head and will eventually die.
A sea slugs that grow their heads again
The bright colors of sea nose insects make it one of the most gorgeous creatures in the reef. In fact, bright colors are sometimes a warning that seems to tell the outside world: Don't touch me! I'm toxic! Colorful has become their weapon to protect themselves. #Animals##Knowledge##Vipers##Science#