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What’s the

biggest jellyfish?

Jellyfish are marine creatures
with small bodies, but some Jellyfish tentacles
contain venomous
stinging cells, used
have incredibly long tentacles. for self-defense or
to catch prey such as
The lion’s mane jellyfish has fish and shrimp.
tentacles 120 ft (36.5 m) long!

It would take more than
40 scuba divers in a line
The tentacles of the lion’s mane jellyfish to be the same length as
are arranged in eight groups of up to 150, so the tentacles of the lion’s
a single jellyfish could have 1,200 tentacles. mane jellyfish.
This type of jellyfish is only ½ in (1 cm) at
birth, but grows up to 230 times bigger.
Its life expectancy is one year.

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