A Portuguese man o' war jellyfish washed up on the beach at sunrise in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. The man o’ war is often called a jellyfish, but is actually a marine invertebrate called a siphonophore, made up from a colony of specialized, genetically identical organisms called zooids.

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Size: 5000px × 3333px
Location: Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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