{"id":857448,"date":"2026-06-10T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/857448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:29:12","slug":"maine-couple-finds-massive-colorful-jellyfish-washed-up-on-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/857448\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine couple finds massive, colorful jellyfish washed up on beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTHE YOUNGEST CANDIDATE IN THE RACE, AND A MEMBER OF THE CHEROKEE NATION. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT SORT OF WILDLIFE YOU MIGHT FIND AT ONE OF MAINE’S AMAZING BEACHES. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE “LIONS MANE”” JELLYFISH FOUND ON LINCOLNVILLE BEACH. CHRISTOPHER MIR AND HIS PARTNER LISA FOUND THE GORGEOUS – COLORFUL JELLYFISH THAT WAS ALMOST FIVE FEET WIDE. THE FACEBOOK POST HAS HAD OVER 300-THOUSAND VIEWS — AND A LOT OF MARINE BIOLOGISTS AND EXPERTS HAVE WEIGHED IN ABOUT THE FIND. < “AROUND THE EDGES YOU CAN SEE THIS BRIGHT RED GOO ON THE VERY EDGES OF IT. APPARENTLY THAT IS MILLIONS OF LARVAE, WHEN A JELLYFISH IS BEACH LIKE THAT IT WILL RELEASE ALL THESE BABIES, LITTLE LARVAE INTO THE NEXT TIDE SO ITS KIND OF A CIRCLE OF LIFE MOMENT.”> CHRISTOPHER ITS SO COLORFUL THAT PEOPLE ONLINE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE “A-I.” BUT HE TOLD US — IT’S\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Maine couple finds massive, colorful jellyfish washed up on Lincolnville Beach<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:01 PM EDT Jun 9, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYou never know what sort of wildlife you might find at the beach in Maine. For one couple, it was a massive jellyfish that was almost 5 feet wide.Christopher Mir and his partner, Lisa Utman, came across the colorful lion’s mane jellyfish while they were at Lincolnville Beach.Mir took a photo and a video of Utman standing next to the jellyfish and shared it to Facebook. The video has more than 300,000 views and a number of marine biologists and experts have weighed in about the couple’s find.”Around the edges of it, in the photograph, you can see this bright pink kind of goo at the very edges of it. And apparently that is millions of larvae,” Mir said. “When a jellyfish is beached like that, it will release all these babies, these little larvae, into the next tide. So it’s kind of a circle of life moment.”Mir said due to the jellyfish’s vibrance, many people who saw it online thought it was AI, but he said it was the real deal. He added that Maine and its wildlife are pure magic.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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You never know what sort of wildlife you might find at the beach in Maine. For one couple, it was a massive jellyfish that was almost 5 feet wide.<\/p>\n

Christopher Mir and his partner, Lisa Utman, came across the colorful lion’s mane jellyfish while they were at Lincolnville Beach.<\/p>\n

Mir took a photo and a video of Utman standing next to the jellyfish and shared it to Facebook. The video has more than 300,000 views and a number of marine biologists and experts have weighed in about the couple’s find.<\/p>\n

“Around the edges of it, in the photograph, you can see this bright pink kind of goo at the very edges of it. And apparently that is millions of larvae,” Mir said. “When a jellyfish is beached like that, it will release all these babies, these little larvae, into the next tide. So it’s kind of a circle of life moment.”<\/p>\n

Mir said due to the jellyfish’s vibrance, many people who saw it online thought it was AI, but he said it was the real deal. He added that Maine and its wildlife are pure magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE YOUNGEST CANDIDATE IN THE RACE, AND A MEMBER OF THE CHEROKEE NATION. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT SORT…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":857449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[12883,349944,349947,11092,349946,349950,349945,10703,349949,2741,10710,349948,16366,75607,13009,20517,159,67,132,68,349951,989,22968,837,10694],"class_list":["post-857448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beach","tag-christopher-mir","tag-colorful-jellyfish","tag-edge","tag-giant-jellyfish","tag-larvae","tag-lincolnville-beach","tag-lions-mane-jellyfish","tag-lisa-utman","tag-maine","tag-maine-beach","tag-maine-couple","tag-maines-total-coverage","tag-marine-biologist","tag-number","tag-photo","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vibrance","tag-video","tag-view","tag-wildlife","tag-wmtw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}