I took a trip with my mom and grandma when I was 6. A jellyfish stung me, and my mom peed on me, which mortified me. Still, I look back fondly at that trip with my family. "Don't swim there, there's a ...
The investigative minds at How to Survive explain why peeing on a jellyfish sting doesn’t work and what actually helps.
The tentacles of the Portuguese man o' war, (which is technically a siphonophore, a group related to jellyfish), contain harpoon-like cells called nematocysts that deliver painful doses of venom.
"Don't swim there, there's a jellyfish!" It was 1996, I was 6 years old, and I was vacationing with my mom and grandma on the remote Colombian island archipelago of San Andres and Providencia. I saw ...