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Experts are warning Texans to stay away from a mysterious sea beast washing up by the dozen along the coast after numerous reported sightings in recent weeks.
The unusual clusters are not actually a single animal at all, but a colony of carnivorous beings working together to hunt ocean prey as one.
With reported sightings just in land from the Gulf of Mexico in recent days, experts are firmly advising people to stay away from the ominous eyeball-shaped critters, however, due to a deadly detail in their biology.
The so-called 'spaghetti monsters', or Rhizophysa, pack a punch 'like their cousins, the man o' war', the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said after a 2021 sighting.
'If you see these floating up on the beach, just admire their creepy beauty,' the institute said. 'But don't touch, unless you want to feel the pain of the eyeball from the sea.'
A creepy seabeast that looks like a disembodied eyeball and delivers a painful sting has been washing up by the dozen on the Texas coast
Experts are warning bystanders to not stand by as the clusters pack a strong punch
Jace Tunnell of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University found dozens of Rhizophysa stranded on the beach as reports 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 weekend there was a large influx of them on the beach where I counted around 30 over along 100 metres of shoreline right at the water line,' he said.
'The creatures look like an eyeball stretched out on the beach.
'Their gas-filled float at the top of the organism has a black dot that really does look like the pupil of an eye.
'In some that we have found, they will have
