It looks like a child lost their floaty toy, right? But whatever you do, don’t try to pick it up. That ain’t no floaty toy.

Their balloon-like shape and colors of blue, purple or pink can be alluring, but avoid the Portugese man-of-war in the water and on land. The sting is extremely painful, and tentacles can release ...

A large international team of scientists sequenced the genomes of 151 Portuguese men o’ war from across their range throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (Figure 1b) and discovered these ...

Sunbathers aren’t the only ones lying belly-up on North Carolina beaches as Memorial Day kicks off the 2025 summer travel season. That beautiful indigo-tinted squish monster, the poisonous Portuguese ...