{"id":84457,"date":"2026-07-15T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84457"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:37:27","slug":"giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invade-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/giant-toxic-jellyfish-with-120-foot-tentacles-invade-new-england-beaches-as-officials-issue-chilling-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Toxic Jellyfish With 120-Foot Tentacles Invade New England Beaches As Officials Issue Chilling Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.com\/1s\/2026\/07\/14\/19\/110011607-15976897-Swarms_of_lion_s_mane_jellyfish_have_been_reported_along_the_New-a-277_1784053176536.jpg\" alt=\"Swarms of lion's mane jellyfish have been reported along the New England coast, where beachgoers say they are appearing by the thousands\" width=\"220\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Giant jellyfish with tentacles up to 120 feet long are swarming US beaches, with officials warning that\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-15126745\/sea-monster-jellyfish-70-foot-tentacles-Texas-beaches.html\" target=\"_self\">even dead creatures can sting<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Swarms of lion&#8217;s mane jellyfish have turned up along the New England coast, apparently by the thousands.\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sciencetech\/article-15974683\/great-white-shark-contender-atlantic.html\" target=\"_self\">The creatures have been spotted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from Massachusetts\u2019 North Shore to Cape Cod and Nantucket, with some drifting as far north as\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-1af2e9c0-7fa3-11f1-a01f-ddf3a0f1e39e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/maine\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Maine<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0The beach town of Beverly in Massachusetts said last week: &#8216;Keep children and pets away from stranded jellyfish. \u2026 Do not touch jellyfish or detached tentacles, even if they appear dead.&#8217;\u00a0The jellyfish is known to sting even 25 days after they have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid): Giant jellyfish with tentacles up to 120 feet long are swarming US beaches, with officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84458,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84457\/revisions\/84458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}