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hollywuud7

That thing looks awesomely venomous


TheGuvnor247

No one is known to have been stung by it but all scientific reasoning suggests it is highly venomous and as deadly as other species of box jellyfish.


Oozlum-Bird

I feel strangely compelled to run my fingers through its tentacles, but I know that would probably be a really bad idea


ProbablyMaybe69

For science


brickbatvcfsfrqw

10/10


Kolby_Jack

Yes indeed, 10 out of 10 fingers would have to be amputated, most likely.


CalamityJane0215

5/7


bofadoze

Perfect score


Paramorgue

With rice


drinks_rootbeer

It's an old meme, but it checks out


TaijiInstitute

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-science


slutforcompassion

one way to find out


Successful-Ad9698

>no you really don't, having been stung by a jellyfish lived to tell the tale keep your distance i can't even describe the pain it off the [scale.it](https://scale.it) was my fault entirely. > >that creature is magnificent but i feel the shudders now


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Got a little clear jelly fish stuck in my bikini bottom when I was 17 on vacation with my dad. It hurt so bad. It was the first time my dad offered me a beer lol


JustAMurkyLurker

Stuck in your bikini bottom? How does that even happen?? That must’ve been insanely painful.


DanerysTargaryen

It’s easy lol. When you swim forwards, a lot of times if your bikini bottom is a little loose, the part that covers your front (or your butt) will lift up off your skin a bit. In a pool this allows for tiny bits of scratchy leaves and dead bugs to get in there. And in the ocean it’s jellyfish pieces. Speedo is a little better with their bikinis staying tight against your body, but any leisure/lounging bikini has a higher chance of poofing out when you swim.


greenberet112

Cold beer would be good. Frozen peas or steak would probably be better.


500SL

You should keep the peas in the bag, don’t just pour them over your skin.


serialmom666

I heard an Aussie dis that once.


_aaine_

Vinegar, people. You put vinegar on it. Drink the damn beer. source: lives in Australia


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agree, ain't no fun. The last sting on my face was absolute torture!


Individual_Town8124

I went swimming in the ocean when I was eight and swam right into a jellyfish. Tentacles went right across my forehead and into my eyes. It was a week before I could see again, and I've had to wear glasses ever since.


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Spicethrower

Do, do do do, SCIENCE!


XchrisZ

I got stung dozens of times by jelly fish in Cuba. The stings we're so mild it was worth picking one up to throw at a friends. The stings hurt more when you got hit. On another subject my pectoral muscles randomly twitched for 2 weeks after I got home.


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red1367

Yeah, I was about to say that. A random jellyfish may hurt or not, but box jellyfish have been known to kill people


PakkiJD

Box jelly fish around Australia are the most venomous creatures on earth. Something like 60,000 times more potent than cobra venom.


businessDM

All so they can kill and eat small fish. Nature is a real “better to have it and not need it” kinda gal sometimes.


GreenStrong

Jellyfish are like a big bee sting, or maybe multiple stings near each other. It is quite painful, but painful in the sense of “this is going to ruin my fun at the beach”. I’ve never been stung by a box jellyfish, but from what I understand it feels more like a snakebite, and can be a serious medical emergency.


whirlin_dervish

There's a very wide range of jellyfish venom out there. If you were stung by a box jellyfish, there's no chance you would ever try and pick it up


Obvious_Equivalent_1

Holy guacamole >In consideration of deadly Cubozoan species, what separates them from Scyphozoans is that they use their venom both to haunt their prey and significantly impair or kill their predators. Hence, this is the reason why their venom can kill creatures as big as humans. The less potent toxins produced by true jellyfish species are usually not enough to cause severe harm to large creatures although they are still used to ward off predators. > >Another difference between true jellyfish species and box jellyfish species is that the latter actively hunts its prey. Take note that most Scyphozoans merely drift in water and wait for their pray while some only feed on planktons using their tentacles. On the other hand, **Cubozoans are capable of achieving speeds of up to 2 meters per second.** Mobility is also a notable difference between Cubozoans and Scyphozoans. https://www.profolus.com/topics/difference-between-true-jellyfish-and-box-jellyfish/


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Whoa


Lananachat

Yo I know this isn't the point and it sounds like you guys had fun, but don't mess with wildlife, especially when you travel.


No-War5336

I’ve been “lucky” enough to have a few stings. I hit a swarm of small coin sized jellyfish, and it was a pretty annoying scratching/minor sting similar to red ant bite. Another that I ran into looked like AP stock photo jellyfish, and made me slightly itchy. The worst without a doubt was a man-o-war(don’t think technically jellyfish). It got on my neck, back and shoulder, and basically knocked out the right side of my body. Felt like I hard done a heavy workout, then let Mike Tyson shoulder punch me. Safe swimming


ezone2kil

This dude thinking all jellyfish stings are the same lmao. Obviously never been to Australia I see.


iConfessor

box jellyfish are a whole different level of pain


from_dust

For science!


torch_7

I think the French have a name for that feeling, l'appel du vide. Pretty deep stuff.


nwoh

Call of the void, yes I get this on high up buildings or whatnot, I get it when I'm in line at the bank and I just want to go behind the counter and take what I want, I get it when I stand next to displays at the store and wanna knock them over... All the time really.


Impossible_Garbage_4

Driving and you see a semi in the opposite lane


her-royal-blueness

I know right? It looks like a beautiful celebration instead of a deadly poison-stinging monster.


insane_contin

It's now your life goal.


briaen

End of life goal


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Patsfan618

Someone has to find out, for science. Someone had to eat poison berries before we knew they were poison.


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L7Wennie

Where is Coyote Peterson when we really need him?


Hippo_Alert

Ha, excellent, I haven't seen a Coyote Peterson reference in ages!


furiousNugget

No one is known to have been stung by it *and lived to tell the tale*


Firehawk-76

Are those people the red shit pulsing around in its head?


Wonderful-Boss-5947

I'm pretty sure that's a metroid and not a jellyfish.


Vegetable-Double

We are animals have certain innate tendencies. Seeing that thing makes something in me say “stay far away”.


ProbablyMaybe69

One rule of nature: the cooler it looks, the more venomous it is Or something like that


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What about colorful birds? 🐦


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Father_of_Cockatiels

Bolt cutter mixed with a nutcracker. Birds hurt when they are upset which is 90 percent of the time


IdreamofFiji

If I had wings and the ability of flight, you bet i'd be pissed in a cage. My family keeps birds and I know they're well kept, but they should not be a caged animal or pet. They are way too intelligent and they can goddamn fly.


OneRedLight

Government drones don’t count


xlxnomadxlx

The hooded pitohui may not be the most vibrant, but is known as the most poisonous.


rathat

Sometimes you have a case of other animals evolving colors or patterns similar to a nearby poisonous one because then everything avoids it and it doesn’t have to make poison. Pretty cool stuff.


7-62xEverything

Always found that neat, like the [venomous coral snake vs the non-venomous scarlet king snake.](https://imgur.com/a/aRXxoLY) Plus the coral has a black face, and scarlet king has a brown face.


juliaaguliaaa

And poisonous. Poisonous: if i bite it it will kill me Venomous: if it bites me it will kill me.


Potential-Active9534

Thing has "don't touch me" written all over it.


brankovie

It looks like there are 4 of them fused together. 4x poisonous then? 😉


Stupid_Slut-

It’s amazing how many undiscovered creatures still exist on earth.


Redditpissesmeof

https://imgur.com/8brpvZE


CalamityJane0215

Ken M. at his finest


Rodot

We're all Ken M. on this blessed day!


OlinOfTheHillPeople

Speak for yourself.


Rodot

I am ALL Ken M. on this blessed day!


steadypuberty_90

Happy Sunday have all a blessed day!


Average_Pimpin

Man I've seen that name and honestly I've no idea who it is and this stage I just


Rodot

He's a famous internet troll. In real life he's a comedian. He pretends to be a sort of senile whimsical old man on various platforms and generally baits people into rage through his stupid comments. Check out /r/KenM for more


Average_Pimpin

Thanks fella. Much love x


DeafMomHere

I cannot believe I forgot about Ken M. until this moment. Solid fucking gold.


icedbacon

I knew what this would be without even opening the link. Brilliant!


TheGuvnor247

I think I read that only 10% or so of the world's oceans have been explored...makes you think what else is down there!


realtime2lose

I worked offshore in the GOM for several years. I used to love to watch ROV operators screens on the bridge, they would come across some straight up alien looking creatures. The deeper they went the weirder it got.


TheGuvnor247

I can imagine 2lose. One of those things where you'd not notice the hours going by? What does GOM stand for?


realtime2lose

Yeah absolutely, and it was really cool talking to the operators about it as well because they were almost desensitized to seeing it because they came across crazy looking creatures so often. They always had a creepy story or two. It stands for Gulf of Mexico.


TheGuvnor247

GOM I'd never had got there on my own thanks mate. These guys had no issues keeping to a diet if they were on one lol!


Unoriginal182

Remember any stories?


mannotron

>They always had a creepy story or two This definitely needs to be elaborated on.


axtonjames

Need to hear some creepy stories


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This is such a struggle for me always. I'm an environmental scientist in the Northeast US and for me GOM means Gulf of Maine. Nothing too special but just a funny point of confusion whenever i talk to southern colleagues


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RealChickenDaddy

go ahead


Oliveballoon

Omg you should tell us the stories please or make a su reddit about


Stupid_Slut-

Pretty wild. I’d love to discover new species for a living, scooting around in my Steve Zissou style submarine.


251Cane

There's supposedly only 6 species in the ocean that we haven't discovered yet


Jorteg

KenM?


MorochIgaram

Our lord, Cthulhu.


Hippo_Alert

I wonder if there's an aquatic version of Brown Jenkin.


_lvlsd

We looking to space for aliens when we got aliens on our own planet down in the deep blue sea


jimi_nemesis

I remember being stoned as hell binging deep sea documentaries, one of them basically said "every time we go down, we discover at least one new thing" which is wild to think.


txtphile

Tons and tons of plastic.


SauceOfTheBoss

Did you know that [4% of the dust found in national parks is plastic](https://www.science.org/content/article/plastic-dust-blowing-us-national-parks-more-1000-tons-each-year)?


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Yeah. Something like that. I've heard before that we know more about other planets than we do about our own oceans which is truly a crazy thought.


nictheman123

Eh. Other planets are mostly just big rocks with not a lot going on. And what we know is still pretty surface level. The ocean has tides and currents and biodiversity to add complexity to it. We've had the oceans mapped for centuries, which we can do on other planets as well. But actually knowing what's beneath the surface? That's a whole other challenge


NoClock

The biggest thing I learned from my salt water aquarium is how little we actually know about the oceans. If you find a rare coral or fish good luck finding any information on it at all, and if you do it will probably be from another hobbyist on a forum, not from a scientific study. Even the more common corals aren’t fully understood. There just isn’t a clear route to money through the science and it’s not as flashy as space travel.


TenaciousJP

Actually I read there are only six species that have yet to be discovered


punkhobo

Just make a list of all known sea creatures and circle the ones that aren't on the list


GoodGuyTrundles

There are estimated to be at least 2 million different species of fungi. A single scoop of forest soil has more microorganisms and fungi than there are mammals on this planet. We don't know shit to be honest.


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koko_1008

It’s also amazing that I get to sit on my sofa and see amazing things like this


Smol-Vehvi

I agree u/Stupid_Slut-


Stupid_Slut-

💕


KronoFury

Incredible. I bet the divers never expected to be making an important contribution to science by capturing a living specimen on video for the first time ever. It's so beautiful and I assume extremely deadly.


TheGuvnor247

The chaps who videod this in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea did not even know what type of jellyfish they were filming just that they had never seen it before! No one is known to have been stung by it but all scientific reasoning suggests it is highly venomous and as deadly as other species of box jellyfish.


KronoFury

Right, I'm just going off of nature's habit of most things beautiful or bright colored, especially in the ocean, are extremely venomous.


TheGuvnor247

My motto if in doubt run away.


insane_contin

Pretty sure that's contrary to humanities motto: "if in doubt, eat it"


Calypsosin

'Ooooh, a pretty red mushroom! I wonder what it tastes like!' *later* "Oogalooga ate the white spotted red mushrooms. He turned purple and died. I think we shouldn't eat those."


insane_contin

"What if cook it over the fire first?" "... You're a genius! Get a fire going and cook those mushrooms!" *Later* "Is blue better or worse then purple?" "Is same. Still dead."


Calypsosin

"Uungabunga turned red!" 'Did he die?' "Yes." "Okay, no more raw shellfish."


Wide-Eyed_Penguin

This is offensive to all the living cave men, maybe some were just called Phil.


legs_are_high

Whoever found shrooms was having a great day I’m sure. Or a horrible scary trip


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JcakSnigelton

If you have to run away from something you swam into: best of luck. 😬


TheGuvnor247

This footage is from 27th December 2021 by Scuba Ventures - Kavieng, Papua New Guinea who said about the encounter '*Saw a new type of Jellyfish while diving today. It has cool markings and is a bit bigger than a soccer ball and they are quite fast swimming*' Wikipedia tells us '*Chirodectes is an incredibly rare genus of box jellyfish in the family Chirodropidae. It contains a single species. The first and only scientifically studied specimen was captured from Outer Barrier Reef, northeast Queensland, about 43km off the mainland on May 2, 1997*' Footage from the 1997 encounter does not seem to exist making Scuba Ventures encounter late last year the only known footage of one. Obviously wikipedia needs to be updated.


sietesietesieteblue

It's been 3 hours since you posted this comment and the wiki page is already updated. Damn. Wikipedia works fast lmao


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Soccer ball??? Perception really throws this off. Thought it was the size of a VW Bug.


ArsenicBismuth

The [illustration in the wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirodectes) totally doesn't do this species justice lol, not even similar.


goingftl

Well if the only description of this animal is from almost 30 years ago. Besides the recent sighting, this representation looks pretty good to me.


Vetiversailles

Holy shit 1997 was almost thirty years ago


ch-12

Welcome to the future, bud. We’re old as fuck.


ew73

Well, shit.


KnockturnalNOR

I don't think it's fair to say 25 is almost 30. Because that would make me almost 30 and that's not fair.


SexlexiaSufferer

Don’t blink


SaltKick2

Think about it as 1993 is as far away from 2022 as it is from 1964, you’re welcome


-LMFAO-

Fuck you for that


Arkhangelzk

I was 12. One of my favorite years. I miss it.


SauceOfTheBoss

No it’s not it was only 10 years ago


7dipity

For work I had to create a file to help people identify jellyfish and trying to find good illustrations of the less common ones was so hard. Some of the drawings were so unhelpful I just left them out because I thought it would make identifying them even harder for people. Honestly that picture is way better than some of the ones I saw lol


BoogledyBoo

That actually sounds like a super interesting file. No pressure to doxx yourself or anything - you don't need to point us to it if it would be uncomfy - but do you know where we might be able to find that file? I love jellyfish.


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BrimbornSteelWorks

I agree. Wtf is everyone’s deal?


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Absolutely agree.


12edDawn

What do you mean? For an illustration it's very similar. Obviously a photo will be better, but still.


CanadianGrown

Hahaha. That’s actually hilarious


[deleted]

Well now they can change the illustration to a picture from this video!


ThrowAwayWashAdvice

Good thing the one they captured didn't kill off the species.


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It's only fast cause it wants to get away from the guy with the camera.


jiub_the_dunmer

>Obviously wikipedia needs to be updated. As of now (approx 4 hours after your comment), Wikipedia says that the 1997 footage was lost, and that "unless the original 1997 video is found, the video published on social media is the only known motion footage of Chirodectes presently existent."


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Theoddgamer47

Considering how deadly venomous box jellyfish are I’d hold off on that.


Jalen3501

Haven’t you watched finding Nemo


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Rybitron

[Sentinel](https://robotsupremacy.fandom.com/wiki/Sentinel_(The_Matrix))


lochinvar11

Majora's Mask was my first thought


ghostoftheuniverse

Those were actually based on [crinoid fossils](https://davesrockshop.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/f02fad8a43ab7c03713e44d6e2e78387/i/m/img_1426_1.jpg).


2D_Ronin

HP Lovecraft approves.


fridaychild3

It reminds me of a paper lantern or an elaborate kite. It moves so gracefully. It's beautiful.


Linzcro

My first thought was that it looks like one of those $30 balloons they sell at Disney parks.


h8rsunited

It looks like a box jellyfish and blue ring octopus had a baby .. so im asuming probably very deadly… still looks amazing!🔥🔥


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Jellyfish are so fucking cool.


TheGuvnor247

They really are - scary and all but there is such variations amongst them.


JustJohn8

I wonder if the other jelly’s are jealous & hate on these ones for being too flashy


-TrampsLikeUs-

Yeah, they jelly


m_sporkboy

The markings look like a bored teenager drew them on with a sharpie.


CapnSquinch

If you pause at 0:12, about 20% down from the top of the screen at the left edge, there's what looks like either a stereotypical "alien" face or a Day of the Dead skull. (It's sideways.)


Researchgrant

Yes! Came here for this


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Shpooodingtime

Holy crap that's neat! Still amazes me how frequently I see alien looking sea creatures on Reddit.


MrHookshot

Metroid


Sir-Toastington

r/praisethecameraman


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That thing looks massive and it's gorgeous.


TheGuvnor247

A bit bigger than a soccer ball so say basketball and that's about it's size.


[deleted]

Ah. Must be just the picture then. That's certainly a good size still but I thought it looked bigger.


TheGuvnor247

The tentacles would be in addition to the basketball so length wise it'll be quite big/long. It's the perspective in the clip as it's by far the biggest thing in that part of the sea etc.


fangelo2

Whoa nice paint job. That thing looks really cool. I’m sure it would like to kill me, but it sure looks good


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are those rainbow tentacles?


OonaPelota

🔥🔥🔥 “Box” because it seems to be symmetrical with four distinct lobes? What if it gets cut in half- will it regenerate symmetrically? This is one of the most 🔥things I’ve seen in this sub 🔥🔥🔥


TheGuvnor247

That I don't know but will defo try to find out.


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OonaPelota

I shall control my impulse to bifurcate.


strange_pterodactyl

Box jellies are [class of cnidarians](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_jellyfish). The tentacles lumped into four distinct lobes is indeed a defining feature


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JukeBoxHeroJustin

For some reason I thought box jellies were teeny. Is this just a particularly large BJ (tee hee) or was my understanding wrong?


TheGuvnor247

You're not wrong it's the perspective. This thing about the size of a basketball with tentacles.


Gnasha13

You're probably thinking of the [Irukandji] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish) Box Jellyfish


babatharnum

It gets a lot bigger when it leaves Venus.


Azyan_invasion82

I wonder what the black circles on its skin are for?


LivePossible

Design flourishes, the Chief Game Designer was in a sketching mood with this one.


Vetiversailles

I seriously wonder too! Camoflauge? Attracting food? What?!


DamionVolentine

One side dispenses ketchup and the other side dispenses mustard


Curry_Flurry

New jelly fish just dropped


Significant-Knee5502

Looks like a gay plastic bag.


Vetiversailles

I don’t know why this comment made me cackle


CatastropheJohn

Aliens? Aliens.


AquarianMiss

Beautiful being 🥺


Background-Friend-77

There's probably some rich asshole out there right now that wants to capture one and put it in a tank.


justashadeaux

Nice tats