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.

The Portuguese man-of-war, or Physalia, is a jelly-like creature that uses a special gas-filled balloon to float on the sea surface. Physalia inhabits the area where the ocean meets the atmosphere, in ...

Our “samurai” should have never made it to the sands of Gamo Beach in Sendai Bay. This beach is historically too temperate ...

Beachgoers along Florida’s Space Coast are being urged to use caution after Portuguese man o’ war and blue jellyfish were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve spotted a big, blue jellyfish on your beach walk recently, it likely wasn’t a jellyfish at all. Beachgoers around north ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office issued a warning Tuesday about a species closely related to a jellyfish washing up on local beaches. The presence of the Portuguese man o ...

For more than 500 million years – well before dinosaurs ever thought of existing – jellyfish have floated through the world’s oceans. Today, 2,000 species of jellyfish have been discovered around the ...

City officials have issued a Portuguese man-of-war advisory for Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve and Waikiki beaches this morning. An HNL alert was issued at 9:15 a.m. after the stinging man-o-wars were ...