A giant creature "contracting" on the family of beach stunners: "It's alive"

A New Zealand family fell early Monday on a giant jelly-like drop on a beach.

(Credit: Adam Dickinson)

Adam Dickinson told his children to stay safe from a huge drop of jelly on which they fell on a New Zealand beach early Monday. The family surrounded the creature that seemed to move.

It was different from what Dickinson had never seen before.

"My first thought was not to let myself be touched by the kids while they ran to watch," recalled Dickinson, who lives in Stanmore Bay, at Fox News.

The great creature was stranded on Pakiri Beach, about 55 miles north of Auckland.

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Dickinson's children compared the pink creature to a "volcano".

"It was really amazing and hard to describe," Dickinson told Yahoo7. "It almost looked like a contraction of the muscles."

It was clear that the creature that Dickinson later discovered was a lion's mane – the largest species of jellyfish in the world – was not dead.

"It's alive," confirmed Dickinson's son.

The family looked at the jellyfish and, of course, she kept moving.

"It was really amazing to see. In addition, the other jellyfish that we found on the beach, we went back to see if it looked like this one and none did, "Dickinson told the radio station. it's nice. It was pretty cool.

A lion's mane, also known as the "giant jellyfish", can grow to the size of a blue whale. According to Oceana, an international conservation organization, its tentacles can reach 190 feet long and can have a bell diameter up to 7 feet wide.

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The majority of jellyfish live in the Arctic and the Pacific Ocean, where the waters tend to be cooler.

"Her mane of long, hair-like tentacles, hung below her bell-shaped body, is the inspiration of the common name of the lion's mane," Oceana explains in a blog post. "The mouth is located on the underside of the bell, surrounded by tentacles divided into eight groups of 150 tentacles each."

This type of jellyfish usually feeds on plankton, small fish and other tiny organisms. The jellyfish of the lion's mane contains a powerful sting, typically using its toxic tentacles to paralyze its prey.