After storms, beaches can suddenly fill with tiny blue discs fringed with tentacles — creatures many people assume are jellyfish. But new research suggests those eye-catching drifters, known as blue ...

"There were so many washed up one year the beach looked blue and the smell was awful." ...

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline. Beachcombers say they look... Glittering blue creatures are washing up on ...

The creatures live on the surface of the water and wash up on beaches in the spring and early summer months. Despite their deceiving appearance, these flat, oval-shaped animals are not technically ...

Oregon beach covered in hundreds of blue Velella - Karen Images/Shutterstock Occasionally, Oregon's coast becomes bewilderingly alien with an unnaturally electric blue shore too vivid to be foam and ...

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California beaches have been the site of some ghastly scenes this year. Dying sea lions, dolphins, seagulls, pelicans and even a minke whale have washed up on the sands from San Diego to Santa Barbara ...