Can anyone please tell me what this little bugger is, I found it crawling along the sand in Byron!

Ha ha, sweet! It actually was moving its head around all creepy?

Zimbo Reagan said...

Its that flying things baby from Avatar

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

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!!!

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 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 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.