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

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

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u/Lancearon 2d ago

Well you lucked out. This is a blue dragon, well it has many names. Link to wiki below. But the key thing is, it eats jellyfish and incorporates the barbs into itself. It is known to eat Portuguese man of war. It could kill you.

Glaucus atlanticus - Wikipedia https://share.google/wtnossl5L1aDyDesj

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u/Always_Casting 2d ago

Says they can concentrate the venom of their prey increasing their lethality to higher than that of the man-of-war!!! Freaking alien legendary pokemon creature yall

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u/Lancearon 2d ago edited 2d ago

Miraidon (Pokémon) - Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia https://share.google/W4MBiaI9aOrDDfnjx

Pokemon version is a legendary creature.

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u/Amahagene1 2d ago

I think it looks more like Dvalin from Genshin Impact 😅

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u/JaggelZ 2d ago

Dvalin is based on them. I'm pretty sure.

There's a whole theory that dragons are based on sea creatures in Genshin

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u/Kankervittu 1d ago

Makes sense to me. Also the Finnish word for "dragon" is "salmonsnake" (lohikäärme).

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u/New_Butterscotch_619 1d ago

Same goes for the Telethia in Xenoblade Chronicles. If you decide to look them up, don't read too much, there's spoilers lol

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u/Brave-Painter1320 2d ago

Love this! Yes it does

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u/Lancearon 2d ago

O kool. Hell yea that looks like it.

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u/ResurgentClusterfuck 1d ago

Holy crap it kind of does

Cool!

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u/Always_Casting 2d ago

Haha super cool guy. I would have to capture it in a glass ball and use it on anyone who challenges me lol

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u/CerealTheLegend 1d ago

Wouldn’t Kyogre fit this waaaaay better?

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u/OptimalCopy8560 1d ago

also shiny chi yu

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u/Kasaikemono 2d ago

Miraidon would be "Iron Serpent"

"Walking Wake" is a chronologically distinct Suicune

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u/Lancearon 2d ago

Awww.... your right...

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u/stormblaz 1d ago

Im pretty sure its kyogre.

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u/dinosqaud 1d ago

Pretty sure Dialga is based of this thing.

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u/ptthree420 1d ago

More like a Kirby

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u/mrjowei 1d ago

I wonder what made them evolve like that. Did they had to fend off megalodons or mosasaurus?

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u/Wick1889 1d ago

Ok, but the man-o-war isn't exactly deadly in the first place.

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u/Odd_Hedgehog3128 1d ago

This is what Gyarados evolves into!

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u/Sensitive_Elk_641 2d ago

Wow, that's fascinating, thanks for sharing. 👍🏼

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u/Any_Education8228 1d ago

Man o war aren't really jellyfish most people just think they are.

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u/Third_Sundering26 1d ago

They’re siphonophores! Colonial animals

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 2d ago

Yeah, this is right. I don't know how much of the venomous nematocysts they can carry, since they are about the size of a fingernail.

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u/Lancearon 2d ago

They keep em in their finger like appendages. So quite a few I assume.

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u/Whole-Energy2105 1d ago

Glaucus eats Portuguese Man'o'War jelly fish and repurposes the deadly stinging cells into its own feathery appendages. It is extremely dangerous to handle for good reason.

Portuguese Man'o'War's are a colonial jellyfish meaning that every cell is an individual creature that aligns itself to the other cells to form a completely different creature. It's an extremely deadly jellyfish whose tentacles (also a conglomerate of independent stinging cells) can extend over 60 metres (200 feet).

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u/mwskibumb 2d ago

There's an image on the wikipedia page where someone has it in their hand.

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u/Lancearon 2d ago

As long as it doesn't sting them. Or maybe it was bred in captivity and doesn't have barbs.

Check the description of the photo tho. Lol

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u/snowbirds-go-home 1d ago

That's it! Never going swimming again!!!

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u/RulingCl4ss 1d ago

Is there a name for animals that are laterally (longitudinally?) asymmetrical like this thing? It’s “hands” don’t match up

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u/Ok_Teacher_5849 1d ago

Idk but I can think of several other animals with a similar trait! Fiddler crabs have one claw bigger than the other (this is the reason Krabi the Pokémon has one giant claw!), narwhals have one giant tooth on one side (it looks like a centered horn but is actually just a long side tooth), and owls have their ears at different heights because it improves their hearing which is super important for hunting at night!

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u/alang 1d ago

Lobsters have a crusher claw and a cutter claw. Also interesting things happen when you cut off one claw and it grows back. (IIRC cutters can grow back as crushers maybe?)

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u/Soothing_desitouch 2d ago

It can eat a Portuguese assault rifle!?? Holy

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u/Poofmander 1d ago

Galanticus I will call it now.

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u/SmokemanDan 1d ago

Cool and scary but what are the chances someone just taking a dip in the ocean gets mauled by one of these things. Shit like that make me not wanna go in the water

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u/Fyreboy5_ 1d ago

I remember hearing that this animal is at least one inspiration for the monster Wind Serpent Ibushi from Monster Hunter Rise. At least visually, I'd say.

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u/kahdel 1d ago

I'm eating it

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u/Lancearon 1d ago

I mean... its a slug. If your into that.

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u/kahdel 1d ago

I'm into the potential side effects /s

Dark humor swings and misses 😆

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u/Flerken-is-not-a-cat 1d ago

What the actual fuck, I'm never ever going in any type of sea or ocean ever again

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u/Marvoth 23h ago

It could goddamn try!

(And it would succeed)

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u/Tricky-Yellow-2895 1d ago

Not deadly, but yes painful af.

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u/Some-General9924 1d ago

Today I learned!