Don’t touch these: Rare animals found on Texas’ coast sting like Portuguese man o’ war
No, they’re not from “Game of Thrones,” they’re a species of sea slug that washed up just north of Bob Hall Pier.
They’re tiny, but they’re powerful, as Mission-Aransas Reserve scientists said, advising against touching these animals since they eat Portuguese man-o-war and sting just as much.Storm snail as photographed by Jace Tunnell / Mission-Aransas ReserveBlue Button Burrows as photographed by Jace Tunnell / Mission-Aransas Reserve, an informational conservation organization, the blue dragon or Blue Glaucus, or Glaucus atlanticus“poses a much greater threat to humans than the Portuguese man o’ war.
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