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Giant jellyfish spotted in the Adriatic for first time since Second World War
The jellyfish can grow to more than three feet in diameter and is one of the rarest to occur in the Mediterranean
By Nick Squires
The bizarre but beautiful creature was first discovered off the coast of Dalmatia in the 1880s by a German naturalist, Ernst Haeckel Photo: Gigi Paderni/ ANSA
A giant, fuchsia-pink jellyfish has been spotted in the Adriatic Sea for the first time in 70 years.
The Drymonema dalmatinum, which can grow to more than three feet in diameter, was photographed by amateur divers off the northern coast of Italy.
It is one of the rarest jellyfish to occur in the Mediterranean and had not been documented in the Adriatic since 1945.
The bizarre but beautiful creature derives its Latin name from the fact that it was first discovered off the coast of Dalmatia in the 1880s by a German naturalist, Ernst Haeckel.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/08/giant-jellyfish-spotted-in-the-adriatic-for-first-time-since-second-world-war/
