PADRE ISLAND, Texas – Visitors to Port Aransas and Padre Island beaches may have encountered an unusual sight lately: a cotton candy-looking jellyfish.
The rare “pink meanie” jellyfish are washing ashore and swarming the waters off the South Texas coast, thanks to their preferred prey.
Jace Tunnell, director of community engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, told KSAT that the “pink meanie” jellyfish are feeding on moon jellyfish along the coast…