VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The venomous Portuguese man o’ war has been spotted in Virginia Beach. When the marine creatures washed up in the resort city, a lot of people were surprised. That ...

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. That translucent, bubble-like object bobbing along the surface, its colors ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — After a Portuguese man o' war was spotted at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront Wednesday, we reached out to the Virginia Aquarium to educate us on what the creature is and why it ...

Portuguese Man O’ War, often mistaken for jellyfish, are colonies of polyps that wash ashore due to wind and currents. Unlike jellyfish, Man O’ War are composed of different polyp types, including the ...

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 ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Deep in the ocean, you can find all sorts of creatures. But sometimes, you can also find them on land. Not one, not two, but at least three Portuguese man o’ war washed up on the sand ...

Two Portuguese man-o-war washed up on a beach in Surf City on Long Beach Island on Wednesday morning. Photos posted on social media by a woman who was beachcombing show the siphonophores, which are ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

This beautiful, majestic creature could kill you in a matter of minutes. But you didn’t know that, so you decided to touch it. Now, that excruciating pain you feel is its powerful venom entering your ...