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Facts on animals and plants: Trachinus Draco
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Trachinus Draco
I can hear you thinking: a fish as a dragon? Well, yes, and this fish is also a very dangerous dragon. This dragon is the Trachinus Draco, a little sandy colored fish who likes to swim along the Atlantic coast, in the North Sea, in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
Most of the time hides himself under the seabed while only his fin and an eye showing above the bottom and that is why he is such a dangerous dragon. As a matter of fact, it in one the most dangerous European animals.
He protects himself by poisonous organs, thorns near the gills that can prick and he can suddenly attack. Contact with those poisonous organs can cause great pain because the smallest quantities of the poison can cause serious symptoms.
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