Comments on: Giant Jellyfish Optical Illusion

By: Pixie

Pixie — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:04:44 +0000

The lion’s mane jellyfish (Cyanea capillata) is the largest known species of jellyfish. Its range is confined to cold, boreal waters of the Arctic, northern Atlantic, and northern Pacific Oceans, seldom found farther south than 42°N latitude. Similar jellyfish, which may be the same species, are known to inhabit seas near Australia and New Zealand. The largest recorded specimen found, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870, had a bell (body) with a diameter of 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 m) and tentacles 120 feet (37 m) long.[1]

By: ME!!!

ME!!! — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:00:21 +0000

I love jellyfish my friend and i were searching jellyfish up and i remember seeing this exact phot!!!

By: blackfoot

blackfoot — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:58:34 +0000

I tend to agree, the diver was erased from the so-called proof!

By: Bambi

Bambi — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:01:12 +0000

The lion’s mane jellyfish can attain enormous size. In fact, the largest Lion’s Mane jellyfish is not merely the largest species of jellyfish in the world; it is the largest animal in the world. The one specimen of Lion’s Mane which was found in Massachusetts Bay in 1870 was over 7 feet in diameter and its tentacles were longer than 120 feet in length. However, the bell of the Artic Lion’s Mane is known to be able to grow up to 8 feet in diameter, and their tentacles can acquire the length of 150 feet. That is much longer than blue whale, which is generally thought to be the largest animal in the world.

By: kyle t.

kyle t. — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:47:03 +0000

@Elizabeth — the photo you submitted for “proof of photoshopping” actually just looks like the diver was erased. The background is drastically different where the diver used to be.

By: Rai

Rai — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:30:17 +0000

thats a real jellyfish. its called Lion’s Man Jellyfish. biggest in the world

By: ellen

ellen — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:27:17 +0000

This is PHOTOSHOP the diver has a blue line around him, it is sooooo blatently photo shop

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:22:44 +0000

Proof of Photoshopping, pic of just the fish

http://hoaxblog.s3.amazonaws.com/big_jellyfish.jpg

It is the exact same jellyfish.

By: w00tw00t

w00tw00t — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:39:00 +0000

it could be a plastic, toy diver….
that was the first thing i thought of when i saw this pic

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:22:06 +0000

This is a real picture.

By: Sourav Chakraborty

Sourav Chakraborty — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:29:07 +0000

I think it is photoshopped because, to capture the allegedly huge jelly fish, the camera would have to be placed very far away. However, sea water is not very transparent (at least in this case) and will not allow such a sharp picture to be taken from a distance.

By: riley

riley — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:25:09 +0000

i think that it is a picture of a real jelly fish with a diver pasted on with some sort of aplication.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:40:10 +0000

I dunno if its helpful but only 1 foot has a flip flop thingy

By: brian

brian — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:32:45 +0000

While it may be Photoshopped, this could be real if the Wiki article is to be believed. The largest specimen ever found was 6’5″ across the dome and tail of 120 feet. The diver is only in the foreground of the tail which if it were just 30-40 feet long, could place the diver much farther away from the camera than the dome of the fish.

By: pococonuts

pococonuts — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:21:06 +0000

its photoshopped because…. um… yeah… the diver lost his head…