Monday, 7 October 2013

A jellyfish washed onshore with 120 feet long tentacles!

It’s called the lion’s mane jellyfish and it is the largest known species of jellyfish yet discovered.

While usually segregated to cold waters in the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific, sometimes the jellyfish wander further south into warmer waters, even going near Australia and New Zealand.
The largest one ever discovered was absolutely enormous, measuring 7 feet 6 inches in diameter with tentacles 120 feel long!

This jellyfish washed up in Massachusetts Bay in 1870. It was even bigger than a blue whale, and is believed to be one of the longest known animals in the world!

If you want to get a scope of it's massive size, look to the left. Yes, that’s a human being pictured next to the incredibly large animal. Luckily for humans, stings from this jellyfish are not usually fatal.

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