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Jennifer Baltazar told KSAT she was walking along the beach near Corpus Christi when something stung her son.
“That’s when we noticed it because I went looking for what could’ve stung him,” Baltazar told the news outlet. “We were super surprised because we’ve never seen anything like that on the beach.”
Baltazar says her family thought it was a fish eyeball.
The “creepy eyeball-looking creatures” initially stumped Mustang Island State Park officials. Farther south along the barrier island, Padre Island National Seashore received reports of similar “strange” creatures washing ashore, too.
The national seashore says the creatures are a siphonophore in the Rhizophysidae family.