How big can a jellyfish get? The biggest of all, the Nomura’s jellyfish of Japan and the lion’s mane jellyfish found in northern oceans, can grow 2 m (6–7 ft) across. That’s wider than a man is tall! The lion’s mane jellyfish can also be very long, with tentacles sometimes growing to an incredible 36 m (120 ft). frilly, slimy, anD stringy Many people find jellyfish strange and disgusting to look at. They have jelly-like, dome-shaped bodies, and tentacles and flappy arm-like parts dangle down from the underside, surrounding the mouth, which is in the middle. Many jellyfish can give you a dangerous sting with their tentacles, but giant jellyfish are not usually as deadly as some Giant jellyfish do look hideous to us – but probably only because they are so unlike ourselves. A diver attaches a sensor to a Nomura's jellyfish in Japan. smaller jellyfish. They don’t feed on humans, and people don’t usually get caught in them. Jellyfish Plagues In the past few years, huge swarms of giant Nomura’s jellyfish have been causing problems for Japanese fishing boats. They get caught in fishing nets, covering the fish with slime and jellyfish poison so that they can’t be eaten.
photo credit to http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/07/world/asia/australia-giant-jellyfish/
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