Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish. Not only is it not a jellyfish, it's not even an "it," but a "they." The ...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is advising the public to exercise caution when visiting coastal areas ...
While it may look something like a brightly colored jellyfish, the Man of War is actually a clump of several organisms that ...
Another unusual aspect of the blanket octopus: It’s immune to the stinging cells of the highly dangerous (to humans at least) jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war, which it uses to its advantage ...
This colorful jellyfish is not one organism but a colony of four kinds of polyp. The stinging cells on the tentacles with which it fishes secrete a substance that is almost as toxic as cobra venom ...