Giant jellyfish washes up on beach in Merseyside
A dog walker was stunned to stumble over one of the world's largest jellyfish on a beach.
Andy Donoghue said he "couldn't believe his eyes" when he saw the metre-wide creature, which had washed up on Seacombe beach in Wallasey, Wirral. The lion's mane jellyfish is widespread across Europe but usually only grows to about 50cm in UK waters. Marine expert Georgia de Jong Cleyndert said it was "unusual" to see an invertebrate of this size here.He said he was walking along when the pet raced ahead before curiously stopping and "taking a big sniff"."I couldn't believe my eyes. I stopped dead and thought, 'wow'.
Ms de Jong Cleyndert, of the North West Wildlife Trust, said she had received a report of a similarly-sized lion's mane at Sandscale in Cumbria last week."The largest ever recorded was found off the coast of Massachusetts in 1865 and had a diameter of 2.1m and tentacles around 36m," she added.
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