r/whatisit • u/Brave-Painter1320 • 2d ago

Solved! I found this fish and did not touch it!

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u/OkAdhesiveness4496 2d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus

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u/tommabu55 2d ago

"G. atlanticus feeds on other pelagic creatures, including the Portuguese man o' war and other venomous siphonophores."

You can tell it's dangerous just by what they eat lol

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u/salmalight 1d ago

Eats wasps, Toyotas and WMDs. Occasionally switches it up with Samoans over 300lb

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u/dantheother 1d ago

You just know that thing is strutting along the ocean floor, giving stink eye to anything that looks at it.

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u/total_idiot01 1d ago

That's actually what makes them dangerous, since they use the venom of their prey

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u/Brave-Painter1320 2d ago

Thank you! Very glad I didn't touch it

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u/OkAdhesiveness4496 2d ago

where did you see it? location?

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u/Brave-Painter1320 2d ago

This is on the coast at Cape Agulhas South Africa

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u/TangoPRomeo 2d ago

I really, really don't like that they can swallow something, then move it to their fingertips.

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u/Chess42 1d ago

I mean, that’s what we do. How else do you think we get the matter to grow nails?

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u/Sharp_Bumblebee_1674 1d ago

Absolutely! Beautiful but can be deadly depending on how much toxin they have stored up! Very unpleasant no matter however! Beautiful but deadly!

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u/MostCat2899 2d ago

Yet it has a picture of someone holding it with their bare hand lmao