nubbsgalore:photos by matt smith from the Illawarra coast in new...

nubbsgalore:

photos by matt smith from the Illawarra coast in new south wales of bluebottles.despite its resemblance to the jellyfish, the bluebottle is more closely related to coral. known as a zooid, the bluebottle (or portugese man of war) is a colonial animal composed of many highly specialized and physiologically integrated individual organisms incapable of independent survival.

notes matt, “despite their potentially dangerous sting, the bluebottle is an amazingly beautiful creature...