Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

California beaches have been the site of some ghastly ... Scher, a professional photographer, lives in Malibu and recently came upon tens of thousands of velella while on a sunset bike ride ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California ... on the open ocean’s surface,” Cayucos photographer Danna Dykstra Coy said in an April ...

RELATED: Why are sea lions attacking people in the waters off California’s coast ... chief lifeguard with Newport Beach Fire. It went on for hours, a local photographer videoing the scene ...

Ronan the California sea lion helped prove them ... likely poisoned by domoic acid from toxic algae blooms.” The Newport Beach photographer who captured the Wedge footage echoed those same ...

Will California’s iconic fish ever recover ... likely poisoned by domoic acid from toxic algae blooms.” The Newport Beach photographer who captured the Wedge footage echoed those same thoughts.

It went on for hours, a local photographer videoing ... out of the water in Newport Beach, the latest in a string of incidents spooking beachgoers across Southern California.

Contributing Photographer) Park goers inspect a California sage brush during the South Bay Conservancy’s Earth Day celebration at Hopkins Wilderness Park in Redondo Beach on Saturday ...