Thursday 13 September 2012

Rarest But Most Beautiful

If you have watched Mulan cartoon from Walt Disney, there was a quote which says,"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all." 

We never really appreciate the biodiversity of our planet let alone protecting it from extinction. Recently someone discovered a sea slug off the coast of South Africa.


Commonly known as the blue dragon or blue sea slug, this beautiful little mollusk, Glaucus atlanticus actually absorbs the man o’ wars venom (it must be poison-type) and stores it in the tips of the finger-like appendages on either side of its body to use when preying on other fish. And since the venom is concentrated, it can actually be more lethal than the man o’ war it took it from. It’s Super Effective!

Beautiful isn't it? That reminds us of the beauty of the strange creatures that fills our ocean. 

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