India, Sept. 8 -- There has been a strange sighting on a beach in Virginia this week, and it is catching the attention of locals. WAVY reports that beachgoers at Dam Neck snapped photos of a creature called a blue button. At first glance, it looks like a tiny jellyfish, but the creature is actually something else.

Robert Donovan with the Virginia Aquarium explained what people were really seeing. "It is not technically a jellyfish," Donovan told WAVY. "It is a gelatinous creature, but it does not meet the criteria for a true jellyfish. They are similar to the Portuguese man o' war in that they are a hydrozoan colony. So it is not one individual. It is a colony of animals making up what looks like one individual," he added.

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