See the video: Tourist discovers “Blue Kite” on Spanish beach.
The “Glaucus atlanticus”, also known as the “blue dragon”, had not been sighted in the Mediterranean for around 300 years. Recently, however, several specimens of this spectacular animal have been discovered on the Spanish coast. The first sightings of the 3 to 5 cm long sea slug were already in 2021. Now the “Costa News” portal reports that a living specimen was found in August in the city of Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante. A tourist had found the “Blue Kite” in the sand at La Mata Beach. As special as the blue sea slug looks, you should keep your distance from the sea dweller. Since the “Blue Dragon” feeds on poisonous jellyfish, such as the Portuguese galley, it is also poisonous. Contact with the poison of the Portuguese galley can cause painful injuries to the skin, shortness of breath or an allergic reaction, among other things. Contact with the No similar cases are known of blue sea snails, but contact with the animals should be avoided. So far, scientists assumed that the specimens found were “accidental occurrence”. The new find could possibly refute this thesis . The sea snail would find the best living conditions here due to the temperature warming of the Mediterranean Sea.