Although some may seem them as intruding upon the region's beautiful beaches, we're actually tourists on theirs, according to ...

The venomous marine creature usually found in the Atlantic or Indian oceans washed ashore in the Gulf, near South Beach.

Their sting is rarely deadly to humans—but it can be extremely painful. Recently, they’ve been showing up in local ...

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 ...

If you've been for a stroll along some Lowcountry beaches in recent weeks, you may have come across a few jellyfish washed up ...

Man-of-war are known for their long tentacles that grow to be an average of 30 feet, but can be around 100-feet-long, ...

Portuguese man o’ war have been spotted on Spanish beaches, forcing the temporary closure of some popular shorelines last year ...

To avoid surprises on the shore, there are apps and platforms like Infomedusa, Meduseo or MedusApp that allow real-time monitoring of jellyfish and Portuguese Man O' War presence on beaches.

“We were walking the island, and the lady said, ‘Hey, that’s a man o’ war jellyfish. Don’t step on it.’ And then we ended up seeing like three or four of them … We have a 4-year-ol ...

a group of animals that are closely related to jellyfish. The NOAA said Portuguese man o' war tentacles deliver venom capable of paralyzing and killing small fish and crustaceans. "While the man ...

While not technically jellyfish, the colonial hydrozoan’s sting can be very painful. The UK’s Wildlife Trusts says the Portuguese man o’ war can be identified as a “large translucent ...