According to Wikipedia, the largest jellyfish ever discovered was a Lion’s Mane jellyfish, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870. It had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.29 meters (7 feet 6 inches) and (poisonous) tentacles 37 meters (120 feet) long. To put that into perspective, the largest blue whale ever recorded was a mere 110 feet long. Via pigjockey.com.
Behold Cyanea Capillata, the world largest jellyfish
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“They can hurt,” Doug Grout, chief of marine fisheries for the state of New Hampshire, said of the stings. “I wouldn’t say they’re deadly, but they provide discomfort.”
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