A RECENT increase in blue bottle jellyfish appearing on local shores has prompted a health warning, with handy tips offered in the event of a sting. Barwon Health has shared a warning on its ...

Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar Residents in the area are warned that although the jellyfish are dead, stings from the blue bottles can still be incredibly painful. Pets must also be kept ...

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 ...

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 ...

A famous beach has been struck with a dangerous ‘invasion’, just says after beaches were shut down due to mysterious black tar balls. Hundreds of the poisonous stingers washed up on Bronte ...

TikTok user @lil_vb_ was filming at Manly Beach, Sydney, as lifeguards instructed swimmers to exit the sea as a swarm of blue bottle jellyfish (AKA the Portuguese man o' war) washed up on the shore.

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 ...