Nomura jellyfish are huge creatures which can grow to 6.5 feet (2 meters) wide and weigh up to 450 pounds (220 kilograms). Common in Chinese and Korean waters, their population is on the rise in the fishing waters off Japan causing chaos as they poison fish with their toxic stings. Thankfully their sting can be survivable in humans, though one could assume it would hurt like f*ck.
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bill // July 6, 2009 at 2:53 am
I’m pretty sure the second picture is a shop.
Jon // July 6, 2009 at 3:02 am
The last photo looks like the scene from Sphere – the movie with helen hunt. Almost science fiction
Anima // July 6, 2009 at 3:23 am
I’ve been told that the second photo you have up there is photoshopped. The Nomuras don’t grow that large.
Anonymous // July 6, 2009 at 3:27 am
ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.
Bam Heartagram // July 6, 2009 at 3:29 am
Holy christ!
That things fkn emormous!
Jamey Hecht // July 6, 2009 at 3:39 am
Coelenterate Badass Invertebrate / Two meters wide / If you messed with me / I’d let it slide.
Dave // July 6, 2009 at 3:44 am
Amazing pictures! Those things are huge!!
*Firsties*
Michael Minto // July 6, 2009 at 4:26 am
The second picture from the top looks too amazing to be true. In addition the lighting/ focus on the diver does not match with the local lighting and focus on the tentacles near by. This indicates that the diver was likely super-imposed. Especially since one of the indicated size would clearly exceed the 2 meter width, stated in the article to be the record width for one of these jellies. Something to think about.
christine kanta // July 6, 2009 at 5:25 am
holy shit
jon // July 6, 2009 at 5:46 am
I thought that second picture in particular was debunked..
Anonymous // July 6, 2009 at 6:08 am
OMG scary
Remi // July 6, 2009 at 7:12 am
The 2nd picture is a famous fake.
josh // July 6, 2009 at 7:30 am
my worst nightmare…
Adam Poots // July 6, 2009 at 8:19 am
What is wrong with that Diver?
jrcreativeink // July 6, 2009 at 9:13 am
fake or not – like the pics =)
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trolomatic // July 6, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The second picture…This Looks Shopped I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time
warren // July 6, 2009 at 5:55 pm
jesus christ, that thing is enormous…what a menace to fishing and boating…imagine if one of those things got caught up somewhere…makes me want to take a grenade and stuff it into those bastards…
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tennis // July 6, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Guys, calm the hell down about the shop, please.
Those other images are pretty incredible, especially the last one.
Kilo // July 6, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Who cares if its shopped or not, the other ones aren’t and they look awesome.
Stop getting caught up in the details people, especially when every second person goes on about it
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ThatDbd // July 10, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Dudes
Did you see the growth of the tentacles up the side and into the crown? The Average large size was 2 meters, knowing how many sea creatures have no limits in size – that one is probably quite real also.
Problems in a Believing society, folks stop their belief patterns rather ion the conservative side.
Nature has no limits Ssss Not Conservative
Later Dudes
TheFaz // July 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm
The second one is real. The diver is Verne Troyer.
Antonio // July 12, 2009 at 1:05 am
They look like giant brains or smth…
Colin // July 12, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Bill, Anima…you guys are retards. Shopped? Because it’s too large? Because…you know, nothing strange ever occurs in nature…like…oversized things…particularly in the ocean?…
That second photo simply must be shopped! There’s NO WAY possible that this species of jellyfish could EVER reach that size! EVER!!!!!
-_-’ This, brought to you by the folks that think that Earth is 13,000 years old, and that God put dinosaur fossils here to test our faith. Grrrr.
Genesis // July 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm
These look nothing like the ones from Ecco the Dolphin!
blah // July 13, 2009 at 12:31 am
the last picture looks like finding nemo
shilpi10 // July 13, 2009 at 11:18 am
The last photo looks like the scene from Sphere
nemrac // July 16, 2009 at 3:21 am
p.s. helen hunt wasnt in sphere it was sharon stone…
gwynn // July 16, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Helen Hunt was not in Sphere. Sharon Stone was.
alexwiz07 // July 22, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Holy crap the last one scared me so much – it’s like the movie Sphere.
nicepooty // July 28, 2009 at 4:13 am
acidity is on the rise in oceans, obsorbing all our carbon dioxide and what have you.. while eggs and mollusk shells are disolving and becoming weak, jellyfish are flourishing more than ever. marinas and water bilges or whatever are getting clogged with their jelliness. give it time, they’ll be the only lifeform in the ocean.
JOKER // July 29, 2009 at 2:08 am
HOLY SHT I ALMOST PISSED MY PANTS WHEN I SAW THT SECOND PIC. ITS NOT SHOPED NATURE HAS NO LIMITS. FOR EXAMPLE LOOK WAT KATRINA DID TO NEW ORLEANS WE’RE STILL CLEANING THT MESS UP AFTER 5 YEARS.
JOKER // July 29, 2009 at 2:10 am
I SWEAR SOME OF U PEOPLE R NIYEAVE ABOUT NATURE.
Matt // July 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The second one is real. The diver is Helen Hunt and the Jellyfish is Sharon Stone.
Lizz // July 29, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Matt, thanks for the lol
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Khromm // August 19, 2009 at 7:39 pm
touched by his noodly appendage