If you're heading to the Texas Coast, be sure to watch your footing on the beach - the dragons are out.
Tiny critters called Blue Dragons are littering beaches from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. It's a snail without a shell and it eats tentacles from the Man o' War and stores the stinging cells in its appendages.
"They can release those stinging cells when they are 'harrassed.' Jace Tunnell with the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and Texas A&M Corpus Christi says. "If you're walking along and step on one, they can release all of those stinging cells at once, making it feel three times as bad as a Man o War sting."
Blue Dragons are only an inch in size fanned out, half an inch curled up. They're blue and silver. Tunnell says getting stung feels like fire and needles and the pain will last one to three hours, but putting vinegar and warm water on the affected area helps.
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