Despite its outward appearance, the Portuguese man o' war is not a common jellyfish but a siphonophore, which is a colony of specialized minute individuals called zooids. These zooids are attached to one another and physiologically integrated to the extent that they are incapable of independent survival.
For nearly two years, retired U.S. Navy combat photographer Aaron Ansarov has collected and photographed man o' wars that wash up on a local Florida beach.
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