Family Stumbles Across New Species of Giant Jellyfish

Saturday, February 8, 2014 - 14:01 in Earth & Climate

An Australian family went to the beach to collect sea shells, but instead stumbled across a gigantic jellyfish that has piqued the interest of scientists.Josie Lim and her family found the creature, measuring just under five feet across, washed up on a beach near Hobart on the island of Tasmania.

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