Scientists believe unusual shifts in ocean currents and rising water temperatures played a role in transporting the species ...

SEASIDE, Ore. — Visitors at the Oregon Coast in recent weeks have spotted something unusual along some stretches of the beach: large clusters of small, blue-tinted creatures that look sort of like ...

MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- Blue jellyfish have invaded Malibu! About a billion of these sea creatures have washed ashore on the West Coast in the past few weeks. The blue jellyfish have distinctive ...

It’s spring again, and that means it’s time to be on the lookout for mysterious blue blobs scattered across Pacific Northwest beaches. From California to British Columbia, the electric-blue, jellyfish ...

Strange springtime visitors — gelatinous sea creatures known as by-the-wind sailors, or Velella velellas— are arriving by the thousands on Bay Area beaches. Expect to see them sail onto Southern ...

Sam Gangwer/AP Photo — -- The strange blue creatures swarming West Coach beaches this summer simply go wherever the wind takes them. Droves of Velella velella -- also known as "by-the-wind ...