A STRANGE “alien-like” creature discovered by a British beach-goer has been identified as the world’s largest jellyfish.
Adam Dickinson, 31, found the bizarre being on a beach in his adopted homeland of New Zealand.
In photos, it appears as a number of purple blobs arranged in a circle, bounded by a sun-shaped ring of white jelly.
Now the creature has been identified by New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research as a lion’s mane jellyfish – the world’s largest known species of jellyfish.
Adam, who visited the beach with his wife Eve, 34, and his children Lucas, four, and Sofia, two, said the they came across the creature on Pakiri beach, 42 miles north of Auckland.
“We had been out walking and there was up to 100 jellyfish along the estuary and beach,” said Liverpool-born Adam.
“At the end, after about an hour, we came across this one. It almost looked alien-like and was slowly moving or contracting.
“Our initial reaction was impressed, because it’s an amazing looking thing.”
When underwater, the tentacles of a lion’s mane jellyfish can trail 100ft or more – longer than a blue whale.
And though its stings are rarely fatal, the large number of tentacles mean that medical attention is often recommended after exposure.
In July 2010, the broken-up remains of one such jellyfish were big enough to sting some 150 beachgoers near the US town of Rye, New Hampshire.
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“They pack a hell of a punch, I have been told,” said Adam.
“I had turned a few jellyfish upside down to explain to the kids not to touch the tentacles, but this was the only one I actually wouldn’t touch.
“I have been here nine years and had seen nothing like that.”
The lion’s mane jellyfish is regularly seen in the waters of the English Channel, Irish Sea, North Sea and around Scandinavia.
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