This 'blue button jellyfish' isn't actually a jellyfish, so what is it? The Blue Button jellyfish, or Porpita porpita, is not actually a jellyfish at all. It's a community of organisms working together.

This ‘blue button jellyfish’ isn’t actually a jellyfish, so what is it?: The Blue Button jellyfish, or Porpita porpita, is not actually a jellyfish at all. It's a community of organisms working together

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A perfectly round, disc-shaped translucent object, about a centimetre across, lying on beach sand. There are intricate radial and circumferential structures, and the surface has a tightly sinusoidal appearance. It's the skeleton of a marine colony organism, the blue button (Porpita porpita).

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The skeleton of a blue button (Porpita porpita), beautiful both alive and dead

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