Mystery creepy sea beast that looks like a lost eyeball dubbed 'the spaghetti monster' is washing up along Texas coast line and 専門家s 明らかにする／漏らす why you should stay away

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専門家s are 警告 Texans to stay away from a mysterious sea beast washing up by the dozen along the coast after 非常に／多数の 報告（する）／憶測d sightings in 最近の weeks.

The unusual clusters have been spotted on the coastline outside Corpus Christi this month, making headlines for their bizarre eyeball-like 外見 and fat ratty tail.

With 報告（する）／憶測d sightings just in land from the 湾 of Mexico in 最近の days, 専門家s are 堅固に advising people to stay away from the ominous eyeball-形態／調整d critters, however, 予定 to a deadly 詳細（に述べる） in their biology.

The いわゆる 'spaghetti monsters', or Rhizophysa, pack a punch 'like their cousins, the man o' war', the Texas?Parks and 野性生物 Department said after a 2021 sighting.

It transpires the organisms are not 現実に a 選び出す／独身 animal at all, but a 植民地 of carnivorous 存在s working together to 追跡（する） ocean prey as one.?

'If you see these floating up on the beach, just admire their creepy beauty,' the 学校／設ける said. 'But don't touch, unless you want to feel the 苦痛 of the eyeball from the sea.'?

A creepy seabeast that looks like a disembodied eyeball and 配達するs a painful sting has been washing up by the dozen on the Texas coast

専門家s are 警告 bystanders to not stand by as the clusters pack a strong punch

Jace Tunnell of the Harte 研究 学校／設ける at Texas A&M University 設立する dozens of Rhizophysa 立ち往生させるd on the beach as 報告（する）／憶測s flooded in.

He said the monsters have been washing up over the last three weeks along both Mustang and North Padre Islands in Corpus Christi, Texas.

'This past 週末 there was a large influx of them on the beach where I counted around 30 o ver along 100 metres of shoreline 権利 at the water line,' he said.

'The creatures look like an eyeball stretched out on the beach.

'Their gas-filled float at the 最高の，を越す of the organism has a 黒人／ボイコット dot that really does look like the pupil of an 注目する，もくろむ.

'In some that we have 設立する, they will have 厚い tentacles that hang 負かす／撃墜する that look like spaghetti ? hence how they have the 愛称 of spaghetti monster.'

Having experienced their sting 本人自身で, he 警告するd that while it is not as violent as the Portuguese man o' war's attack, it does 傷つける for about an hour.?

'The spaghetti monsters live in the open ocean, so it's not ありふれた to see them washing up here,' he continued.

'Only during the perfect 条件s of 勝利，勝つd, waves, and 現在の do we see them around March and April.?

The Texas Parks and 野性生物 Department 警告するd:?'If you see these floating up on the beach, just admire their creepy beauty.

'But don't touch, unless you want to feel the 苦痛 of the eyeball from the sea.'

Siphonophores are a class of sea creatures that cluster as a 植民地の organism, emitting light to attract prey before pouncing with their?tentilla.

にもかかわらず their 比較して innocent 外見, they are predatory carnivores and live on crustaceans and small fish.

Their tentacles use powerful neurotoxins to 行き詰まり，妨げる prey, enveloping it in its cluster 責任がある feeding, digesting it and 分散させるing it around the 植民地.

Siphonophores 耐える some similarities to jellyfish as a result, their group of Cnidaria 発展させるing 500 million years ago and 生き残るing with little 圧力 to adapt or 複雑さ their lethal means of attack.?

Whi le those spotted 近づく Texas are やめる small, some much deeper in the ocean can grow as long as 100ft, making them some of the longest creatures on the 惑星.

Jace Tunnell of the Harte 研究 学校／設ける at Texas A&M University 設立する dozens of Rhizophysa 立ち往生させるd on the beach as 報告（する）／憶測s flooded in

The Texas Parks and 野性生物 Department 警告するd: 'If you see these floating up on the beach, just admire their creepy beauty.'

In 2021, a young child was left in 苦痛 after he was stung by a 'spaghetti monster' at Mustang Island 明言する／公表する Park.

Jennifer Baltazar says her son was attacked by one of the creatures while swimming.

She said young Rogelio '（機の）カム running from the ocean and said he was stung by something'.

'He said it stung and 燃やすd a lot, and he was in 穏健な 苦痛 for about 20 minutes.'

She said she noticed 'these strange jellies' and 接触するd Jace Tunnell, who said it was likely her son had been stung by a Rhizophysa.

'I've never seen these things wash up before,' he said at the time.?