Mysterious 'Eyeball-Looking' Creatures Wash Ashore in Texas On 4/9/21 at 4:43 PM EDT Jennifer Baltazar was walking on the beach with her son when he began to feel a stinging sensation in his foot. According to MySA.com, the two of them retraced their steps to find what he stepped on and discovered a strange creature that looked almost like an eyeball. After taking pictures of the gelatinous, jellyfish-like blobs, which had washed ashore at Mustang Island State Park, Baltazar reportedly sent the photos to Jace Tunnell of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute. Tunnell told MySA.com that while he had never seen those particular organisms before, after some research, he was able to identify them as Rhizophysa eysenhardti. The species is closely related to Portuguese man o' war, a stinging siphonophorae that resembles a jellyfish.