The Box jellyfish, called Sea Wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the deadliest species of jellyfish. Also it is wide regarded as the deadliest creature ever. They can kill human only in 3 min and the sting is extremely painful.Few notes of interest: First, they look like jellyfishes, but they are not actually real jellyfishes from the systematics' point of view. And second, there is antidote and few treatments which may help the victims survive the sting and I recommend these interested in the issue to read the more in debt explanation from the Wikipedia's article.
Source: AFPMB, Wikipedia
3 comments:
WOW!!!!! I never even heard of a jellyfish that can kill in 3 min. That's INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!
Is this the jellyfish that is only the size of your thumbnail? Amazing.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Is this the jellyfish that is only the size of your thumbnail? Amazing.
You are thinking about the Irukandji. The box jellyfish is actually one of the bigger "jellyfishes" (if we can call them like that).
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