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Created by kyron > 9 months ago, 15 May 2010
kyron
TAS, 209 posts
15 May 2010 8:42AM
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Can anyone please tell me what this little bugger is, I found it crawling along the sand in Byron!


Zimbo Reagan
WA, 469 posts
15 May 2010 6:43AM
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Its that flying things baby from Avatar

kyron
TAS, 209 posts
15 May 2010 8:45AM
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Ha ha, sweet! It actually was moving its head around all creepy?

Zimbo Reagan said...

Its that flying things baby from Avatar


aussiefreebs
VIC, 228 posts
15 May 2010 9:41AM
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Man thats freaky, flashbacks to all those B grade alien movies I watched in the 80's/90's.

angie pangi
QLD, 1779 posts
15 May 2010 9:41AM
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LOL it looks very strange mate!!

Looks like something that gets under your skin, like in those crazy alian movies. Then it eats you up from the inside - out!

But it looks pretty.

XX angie

DavidJohn
VIC, 17460 posts
15 May 2010 10:16AM
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Looks like an earing..

DJ

aussiefreebs
VIC, 228 posts
15 May 2010 10:35AM
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Hey Kyron, have you noticed any strange markings on your body since you picked it up?

Or are you finding you have to stay in darkened rooms because the light bothers your eyes now?

Do you have an unquenchable thirst?

Keep an eye on your fingers, if your nails start changing into like talons or something, I'd probably see a doctor, or Will Smith!!!


PTWoody
VIC, 3982 posts
15 May 2010 10:53AM
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Nothing to worry about as long as you didn't pick it up.

Oh, you did what?

termite
NSW, 283 posts
15 May 2010 12:59PM
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Hey Kyron
These are called Margined Sea Lizards (Glaucus marginatus).

The Qld Museum website says: "Vaguely resembling a tiny lizard this creature is actually a glittering blue nudibranch mollusc. It reaches only 10 mm in length and has 3 pairs of fan-like finger-like appendages called cerata. Sea Lizards float upside-down on the water surface and can somersault and ‘row’ using their cerata that also act as gills. They feed on Blue Bottles and By-the-wind Sailors and store stinging cells from these animals in the terminal sacs of their cerata. These stinging cells are used for the creature’s defence and can occasionally cause minor stings to swimmers. Sea Lizards are found throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans."

Bill

kyron
TAS, 209 posts
15 May 2010 3:48PM
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Awesome, thanks for that!

Piros
QLD, 6995 posts
16 May 2010 1:07AM
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Kyron send you pics to Dr Julian Pepperell here is one of Australia's best known marine biologists and he has an article each month in Blue water magazine , identifying photos of weird marine creatures that people send in .

www.julianpepperell.com

Rob

colas
5064 posts
16 May 2010 3:36PM
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Hey Kyron, you should have tried to cook it.


Yes I am French, why? :-)

Gorgo
VIC, 4982 posts
16 May 2010 5:38PM
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colas said...

Hey Kyron, you should have tried to cook it.


Yes I am French, why? :-)


You got a green thumb because I have some French friends. Very embarrassing fishing companions.



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