The porpita porpita — also known as the "blue button jellyfish" — looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish, but is not in fact a jellyfish. The blue button is actually a colony of many ...

She recognized the eye-catching blobs as blue button jellyfish: tiny sea creatures that look like a stained-glass sand dollar, with cerulean tentacles attached to a glittering disc. Nolan-Wilde (a ...

The creatures look like small bright blue jellyfish, but they are actually just a very distant relative. Porpita porpita are a form of hydrozoa, just like jellyfish, but they are not a single ...

The Galveston Bay Area Chapter recently shared photos of the blue button, encouraging beachgoers to be on the lookout for the jellyfish-like creature which increasingly has been found along the ...

The Galveston Bay Area Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist reports recent sightings of a porpita porpita also called a blue button jellyfish. The sea creatures resemble jellyfish, but their ...

The unique creatures are called Blue Button Jellyfish, or Porpita Porpita, and officials are asking you to keep an eye out for them as they can cause skin irritations if you touch them.

But keep your hands to yourself around the blue button jellyfish, the Galveston Bay Area Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program warned in a July 3 Facebook post, sharing photos of several ...