Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue button jellies are a distant cousin of the jellyfish. So far, so good. Researchers believe it’s a “quasi colonial organism,” ...

Some Texas beachgoers are having to compete for sand space with an intriguing blue creature. But it's not one that can simply be shoved out of the way – unless getting stung is on the agenda. Texas ...

PORT ARANSAS, Texas – A KSAT employee sent in photos of blue button jellyfish that she spotted in Port Aransas Monday evening after storms in the area started clearing up. The scientific name for the ...

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 ...

Hurricane Florence may be long gone but the storm’s presence is still being felt at the Jersey Shore. After a recent influx of Portuguese man-of-war, there’s a new creature around: blue button ...

With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science fiction than a living organism. Found drifting on the surfaces of warm oceans, ...

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, Thailand, ...

Holly Horner was walking along the beach in Brigantine last week when she encountered a creature whose existence in New Jersey is practically unheard of. It was a blue button, a jellyfish-like animal ...

If you've been out along St. Johns County's beaches lately, you may have spotted a curious, strangely beautiful turquoise-colored creature wash up on shore. What it is, local biologists say, is a blue ...

Some nuisance critters washed up on the east end of Panama City Beach Tuesday. A few beachgoers sent us pictures of blue button jellyfish in the relatively clear water of the Gulf. According to Scott ...

TOPSAIL ISLAND, NC (WECT) - With Hurricane Michael on North Carolina’s doorstep, signs of Hurricane Florence are still washing ashore. Dozens of blue button jellyfish have been seen on beaches in ...