An Orange Beach visitor yesterday snapped a photo of a rare Gulf Coast sighting, a Portuguese man o’ war. “Stranded but still stunning — a Portuguese Man-o-War spotted on the shore," wrote City of ...

Why they're awesome: The largest animal on Earth is thought to be the blue whale, but these strange sea creatures can grow even longer — reaching up to 150 feet (46 meters) in length. There are ...

Not only is it not a jellyfish, it's not even an "it," but a "they." The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. The man-of-war ...

This beautiful siphonophore, Pyrostephos vanhoeffeni, is typically encountered in Antarctic waters. Siphonophores are not an individual animal, but a colony of individuals that all serve a ...