If you are headed to the beach, watch out!! This! Just in time for beach vacations comes an interesting warning. Researchers are urging beachgoers to not touch a bright blue and silver sea slug on Texas beaches. The one-inch creature, known as the blue dragon, sails on the ocean’s surface and feeds on toxins. The sea slugs may be tiny, but a marine biologist warns that their sting feels like needles “scraping across your skin” and the pain can last up to three hours. They can sting in the water or even after they come ashore and die. Blue dragons live in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans but their habitat is expanding, according to the advocacy group American Oceans. The sting, in some cases, can be deadly.
(Video courtesy of Deep Marine Scenes)
