Texas is experiencing a superbloom of a very different variety, as smacks of “pink meanie” jellyfish have been spotted along its coastline. These vibrantly colored and predatory jellyfish are remarkable-looking creatures – and they can get huge. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“I'm excited today to talk to you about something I've been looking for for a year and that's called the pink meanie,” so says Jace Tunnell, director of community engagement at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute, in a recent YouTube video . “It's a jellyfish that can get huge. I mean tentacles to 70 feet [21 meters] long and the thing can be 50 pounds [23 kilograms].”

Tunnell tells us this while splooting on a be

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