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Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
There’s been a a certain amount of negativity floating around lately. So, let’s talk about a toxic, venomous freak of nature and the parasite that afflicts it.Biology warning, this gets…
They come in a variety of colors — pink, blue, purple — and they’re pretty prominent, floating on the surface of the ocean like discarded party balloons. So, some corals are colonial, but all this means is that the individual polyps have grown into each other to produce a sort of living carpet interlaced through their stony skeleton. We knew these guys were wind-sailing, carbon monoxide powered, venomous colony creatures with clusters of squirming mouth-tentacles and detachable gonads.
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