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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/an...206-323ko.html

A previously unidentified species of giant jellyfish is invading southern Tasmania this summer, baffling scientists after one of the animals washed up on the beach.

The Lim family were collecting shells on a beach in Howden, south of Hobart, last month when they stumbled across a monster 1.5-metre jellyfish on the shore. So unusual was the gigantic blob that the family took a photograph, and forwarded it to the CSIRO.

"In Tasmania, we don't do jellyfish. This was something else. We've just never seen anything like it," said Josie Lim of their find.

Little did the Lim family know that, over at the CSIRO, Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin, who has been working with jellyfish for 20 years, had been hearing stories of this elusive animal in waters off Tasmania for more than a decade.

Hopefully this is a real discovery and not another washed up sex toy.