Portuguese Man of War Design
by Owen Borville
July 29, 2020
Biology
What is the Portuguese Man of War? This sea creature looks like a jellyfish but is not-actually it is distinctly different, unique design from an Intelligent Designer that could not have evolved over millions of years. It is actually classified as a siphonophore, which is a group of marine animals that are so unique that evolutionists have difficulty classifying them. A siphonophore is an animal made up of a colony of genetically identical organisms working together. The anatomy and structure of a Portuguese Man of War is a colony of individual organisms is called polyps. The polyps must stay together because they cannot survive on their own. The man-of-war has no head, brain, gills or skeleton.
This invertebrate carnivore's top float can be 12 inches long by 5 five inches wide and its tentacles can extend up to 165 feet. Despite being made up of many individual polyps or organisms, all members of a colony are either male or female. Man of war are believed to release sperm or eggs into the open ocean and will fertilize when coming in contact.
The man-of-war contains four separate polyps: the top floating head, the long tentacles, the digestive organs, and reproductive organs. The top polyp (pneumatophore) is a gas-filled chamber that floats above the water and looks like a ship. The top polyp is translucent and comes in a variety of bright colors. While the tentacles, the second polyp, can extend up to 165 feet downward into the water, the average length is 30 feet. The tentacles contain stinging nematocysts, microscopic capsules loaded with coiled, barbed tubes that deliver venom capable of paralyzing and killing small fish and crustaceans. Muscles in the tentacles also grasp prey. The sting is very painful to humans but usually does not cause death. The man of war also contains digestive and reproductive organs, the third and fourth polyps.
Man of wars can be found in groups of hundreds or more and float in the warm ocean waters around the world. Man of wars cannot move or propel themselves and either drift with the ocean current or use their top head to catch the wind, like a sailboat and which inspired its name. Sometimes a man-of-war will submerge its top head briefly to avoid a threat or predator. Some fish are immune to the man-of-war sting and swim around the tentacles to steal the man-of-war's prey. One variety of the man-of-war lives in the Pacific and Indian Ocean and has a single long tentacle instead of multiple tentacles.The man-of-war has predators, including loggerhead sea turtles, the large sunfish, and sea slugs, which eat them and steal their toxins while using these toxins to deter predators.
by Owen Borville
July 29, 2020
Biology
What is the Portuguese Man of War? This sea creature looks like a jellyfish but is not-actually it is distinctly different, unique design from an Intelligent Designer that could not have evolved over millions of years. It is actually classified as a siphonophore, which is a group of marine animals that are so unique that evolutionists have difficulty classifying them. A siphonophore is an animal made up of a colony of genetically identical organisms working together. The anatomy and structure of a Portuguese Man of War is a colony of individual organisms is called polyps. The polyps must stay together because they cannot survive on their own. The man-of-war has no head, brain, gills or skeleton.
This invertebrate carnivore's top float can be 12 inches long by 5 five inches wide and its tentacles can extend up to 165 feet. Despite being made up of many individual polyps or organisms, all members of a colony are either male or female. Man of war are believed to release sperm or eggs into the open ocean and will fertilize when coming in contact.
The man-of-war contains four separate polyps: the top floating head, the long tentacles, the digestive organs, and reproductive organs. The top polyp (pneumatophore) is a gas-filled chamber that floats above the water and looks like a ship. The top polyp is translucent and comes in a variety of bright colors. While the tentacles, the second polyp, can extend up to 165 feet downward into the water, the average length is 30 feet. The tentacles contain stinging nematocysts, microscopic capsules loaded with coiled, barbed tubes that deliver venom capable of paralyzing and killing small fish and crustaceans. Muscles in the tentacles also grasp prey. The sting is very painful to humans but usually does not cause death. The man of war also contains digestive and reproductive organs, the third and fourth polyps.
Man of wars can be found in groups of hundreds or more and float in the warm ocean waters around the world. Man of wars cannot move or propel themselves and either drift with the ocean current or use their top head to catch the wind, like a sailboat and which inspired its name. Sometimes a man-of-war will submerge its top head briefly to avoid a threat or predator. Some fish are immune to the man-of-war sting and swim around the tentacles to steal the man-of-war's prey. One variety of the man-of-war lives in the Pacific and Indian Ocean and has a single long tentacle instead of multiple tentacles.The man-of-war has predators, including loggerhead sea turtles, the large sunfish, and sea slugs, which eat them and steal their toxins while using these toxins to deter predators.
