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Would you venture in anyway?

Would I face a lethal jellyfish – with eyes?

Scrolling through recent jellyfish news I came across some interesting articles. Beware these so-called “blobs.” One article was from West Australia about large numbers of box jellies washed up on the beach.  I have occasionally seen various species of jellyfish on the beach, but never stranded box jellies. Too bad, since box jellies are the ones with the most sophisticated eyes. It would have been an opportunity to harvest some of their eyes for study. But I would have had to proceed with care. The article states that the Australian box jellyfish are the world’s most venomous animal. They are deadly (but I question whether they are the most venomous animals in the world).

Then again, maybe they are, and it’s good I never saw a beach with stranded box jellyfish. While a jellyfish never stung me, I’m sure I’m high on the jellyfish watch list, and they’d like nothing more than to exact revenge for the number of eyes I’ve taken from their relatives. I can’t imagine that a reunion with a bunch of lethal box jellyfish would be pretty.

Daniel Pearson, a brave reporter for The Inertia.com, tells us exactly what it’s like to get stung by a box jelly.

Read on for more from the experts:

Here’s what happens when you get stung by a box jellyfish, Daniel Pearson, TheInertia.com

Box Jellyfish mass stranding potentially lethal, says expert, Ben Collins of ABC Kimberley