An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

Learn how the air-filled pneumatophore helps the Portuguese Man o’ War float and why it often ends up stranded on beaches.

SUNSET BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Sunset Beach Fire Department is warning beachgoers of portuguese man-of-war washing up on shore.

This colorful jellyfish is not one organism but a colony of four kinds of polyp. The stinging cells on the tentacles with which it fishes secrete a substance that is almost as toxic as cobra venom ...