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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

With the weather turning warmer, people visiting beaches in Galveston and other spots along the Texas coast are reporting more Portuguese man-of-war sightings. The species may look pretty and blue or ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve spotted a big, blue jellyfish on your beach walk recently, it likely wasn’t a jellyfish at all. Beachgoers around north Florida reported seeing Portuguese men o’ war washed up on the sand ...

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 ...