GALVESTON, Texas — Beachgoers along the Texas Gulf Coast are encountering something strange and stunning washing ashore: the Blue Button, or Porpita porpita. It looks like a jellyfish, but according ...

GALVESTON, Texas — More strange sea creatures are washing ashore on Texas beaches. The Galveston Bay Area Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist reports recent sightings of a porpita porpita also ...

A TOURIST hotspot beach has been closed for swimming after sightings of a poisonous jellyfish. Holidaymakers have been warned not to enter the water at Princess Beach in the Similan Islands, ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. Maureen Nolan-Wilde was walking ...

These miniature stingers are commonly known as blue button jellyfish, but their official marine name is porpita porpita. Unlike jellyfish, the eye-catching species can't swim and can instead be found ...

Texas officials to beachgoers: Watch your step. Small and blue tentacled creatures have been spotted along the shores of Galveston Island State Park on the western Gulf Coast, the Texas Parks and ...

If you are walking along a Texas beach this summer and see a blue, gelatinous coin-like creature hanging out on the shore, be sure not to touch it. Although most people are unaffected by its mild ...