In 1870 it was discovered a jellyfish with tentacles 36 meters in length

Lion's mane jellyfish looks like an ordinary jellyfish with tentacles forest, mushroom growing from his head. Here are the largest known species of jellyfish, these creatures live mostly in the cold waters of the Arctic and northern parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The largest known jellyfish washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870. Her body was 2, 3 meters in diameter, and the length of each of the tentacles reached the 36 meters - is greater than the length of a blue whale is medium in size.

Dimensions hairy cyan vary greatly, and some only grow to half a meter in diameter. Such individuals are prey for sea birds, large fish and sea turtles. Sami jellyfish mainly feed on zooplankton and small fish.

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