1. Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.

2. The Portuguese man-of-war is a large poisonous jellyfish-like creature found in the UK.

3. A hovering man-of-war bird showed him where dolphin were chasing some flying fish, but the school was moving too fast and too far away.

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5. Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.

6. Often mistaken for a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually made up of a colony of organisms working together.

7. Given impressive-sounding names like "Portuguese man-of-war," jellyfish are certainly respected and feared by humans.

8. If a Portuguese man-of-war stings you it will be very painful.

9. Conway pointed to a purple Portuguese man-of-war lurking to their left.

10. Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war.

11. Far to the north, a much more menacing species looms – the Portuguese Man-of-War, a floating, violet-coloured sack with long tentacles.

12. Darwin came here on the Beagle and noted that the sound of calving bergs "reverberates like the broadside of a man-of-war through the lonely channels."

13. You have no notion of the powers of a captain of a man-of-war.

14. The moon jellyfish are, in fact, just about everywhere, including Mexico, Alaska and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. They include the stinging Portuguese man-of-war.