{"id":685768,"date":"2026-06-05T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:23:19","slug":"giant-jellyfish-washes-ashore-at-lincolnville-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685768\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant jellyfish washes ashore at Lincolnville Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A giant lion\u2019s mane jellyfish washed up on Lincolnville Beach. Christopher Mir and Lisa Utman discovered the jellyfish, which measured roughly 5 feet across. Credit: Courtesy of Christopher Mir<\/p>\n

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A giant jellyfish approximately 5 feet in diameter has washed up on Lincolnville Beach.<\/p>\n

The massive invertebrate is a lion\u2019s mane jellyfish \u2014 the largest known jellyfish, and is a species commonly found in Maine waters. While lion\u2019s mane jellyfish regularly wash up on Maine beaches, they are typically much smaller.<\/p>\n

Christopher Mir and his partner, Lisa Utman, were walking the beach Tuesday morning when they spotted it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few people understandably think it\u2019s AI \u2014 it definitely doesn\u2019t look real \u2014 even in real life,\u201d Mir said.<\/p>\n

While Mir and Utman have seen large lion\u2019s mane jellyfish before, they\u2019ve never seen anything like this, he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The jellyfish is still on the beach, though it has shrunk considerably since washing up after spending a day in the sun.<\/p>\n

Lion\u2019s mane jellyfish can have up to 1,200 hair-like tentacles that may stretch more than 100 feet in length. Those tentacles can still sting even after the jellyfish has died or washed ashore.<\/p>\n

The largest lion\u2019s mane jellyfish on record was found off the coast of Massachusetts and had a bell diameter of about 7 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A giant lion\u2019s mane jellyfish washed up on Lincolnville Beach. Christopher Mir and Lisa Utman discovered the jellyfish,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79,1148,6879],"class_list":["post-685768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-surprise","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}