Thursday, April 29, 2010
Portuguese "man o' war" jellyfish spotted off Murcia coastline
Around a dozen Portuguese "man o' war" jellyfish have been spotted off the coastline of Murcia, including off of La Isla near Mazarrón. The species Physalia physalis has an extremely painful sting.They usually migrate into the shallower waters of the Meditteranean during the cooler winter months, before returning to deeper waters and to the Atlantic when the temperature rises as summer approaches