Blue Buttons are commonly found on shores that blanket the Gulf of Mexico, usually in the summer, they added, and are drawn to shorelines by plankton blooms, which is their source of food.

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 ...

“They were everywhere,” she says, “just all over the beach.” She recognized the eye-catching blobs as blue button jellyfish: tiny sea creatures that look like a stained-glass sand ...

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 ...