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Giant jellyfish

Giant Jellyfish

This strange creature was sighted a few times but has struck people with awe for decades.

Sightings

In 1953, an Australian diver saw a brown mass engulf a shark.

In 1969, divers Richard Winer and Pat Boatwright saw a jellyfish 50-100 feet in diameter. They said it was deep purple with a pink rim. They encountered this invertebrate southwest of Bermuda.

Another sighting occured but was proved to be a Lion's Mane Jelly, a massive jellyfish, but not near as big as the cryptid giant jellyfish.

Explanations

There have been freakish reports of jellyfish bigger than people in Japan. But there are possibly larger and more

Lion mane jellyfish3

A lions mane.

dangerous jellyfish elsewhere. Another explanation could be the above mentioned Lion's Mane that grew to freakishly large sizes. The biggest lion’s mane jellyfish ever recorded to this date was discovered on the shores of Massachusetts Bay in 1870, and it’s body measured at a diameter of 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) and tentacles 120 feet (37 m) long, which is longer than a blue whale, the largest animal in the world. However, these jellies tend to be long rather than wide, so it could not be the reports of wide jellyfish, but it could be the reports of long jellyfish.