Bizarre blue sea creatures! 👽 These visually stunning invertebrates are known as the Blue Button or Porpita porpita (back) and the Blue Dragon or Glaucilla marginata (front). They live partly in air and partly in water, relying on the wind to move them throughout the ocean in search of prey, which is sometimes each other! Master Reef Guide Jacinta Shackleton came across these two washed ashore in the Great Barrier Reef at Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort. #BiodiversityMonth | Master Reef Guides

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Meet the Glaucus atlanticus This is a species of small, blue sea slug, a pelagic aeolid nudibranch, a shell-less gastropod mollusk in the family Glaucidae. These sea slugs are pelagic; they float upside down by using the surface tension of the water to stay up, where they are carried along by the winds and ocean currents Aloha! www.oceandefenderadventures.com | OCEAN DEFENDER - Hawaii

The blue dragon, known as Glaucus atlanticus, is a sea slug that defends itself by converting its prey's venom into its own weapon. Measuring just about an inch, it floats atop the ocean where its silvery-blue color camouflages it from both above and below. Its primary meal is the Portuguese man owar, a creature with potent venomous tentacles. The blue dragon is immune to this venom and stores the stinging cells on its feather-like appendages, giving it a sting even more painful than that of its