Southern California has recently experienced an influx of palm-sized, blueish-purplish, jellyfish-like creatures washing ashore.
Although not considered dangerous to humans, a marine biologist who posted a video online after discovering the creatures off the California coast advised people to look but not touch them because they have tentacles that can slightly sting.
Thousands of Velella velella, commonly known as By the Wind Sailors, have washed ashore along the Southern California coast, including at Huntington Beach, Zuma Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Salt Creek Beach, as well as further north.
The wind blows in these cousins of the jellyfish, but they can’t survive long out of water….