The Sea of the World is home to many rare organisms, some of which can only be seen by the human eye with exceptional rarity. It is not an exaggeration to say that one such species is the cube jellyfish, one of the most venomous groups of animals on Earth that has only been seen for the second time since its discovery.
Only seen once, in 1997
Divers at Scuba Ventures Dive Center in Kaving, Papua New Guinea, didn’t think they’d be part of an extremely rare rendezvous while snorkeling at the end of December last year.
Divers noticed a special shaped jellyfish atop a coral cliff at a depth of about 20-25 meters above the surface, around which many photos and a video were taken below.
As it turned out, lucky divers were considered the rarest living creature in the world. Chirodectes maculatus They came across a cube-shaped jellyfish of the scientific species. This extremely rare animal has only been seen once before, on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef, about 43 miles off the northeastern coast of Queensland, on May 2, 1997.
The hitherto completely unknown jellyfish was discovered in the immediate vicinity of a beach or surface by biologists describing the new species, who postulated that Tropical Cyclone Justin had dumped the strange nettle into shallow waters.
Interestingly, the specimen discovered in 1997 was about half the size of the specimen discovered recently about the size of a soccer bell.
They have much more victims than shark attacks
nettle strain (Nettles) Jellyfish (Midosozwa) constitute one of its sub-tribes. According to fossil evidence, the first members of this ancient group inhabited the seas of the Cambrian period more than half a billion years ago.
In the category of segmented jellyfish, which includes about fifty species (kobuzwa), which includes this extremely rare species of jellyfish, one of the most venomous animals on Earth. who are they , Chironex pick up The “sea wasp” named after the scientific species is the most famous,
Which bites an average of a hundred people a year.
(By comparison, more publicized shark attacks result in a maximum of five to ten deaths per year.) The sea wasp causes seasonal problems primarily off the east coast of Australia when these are small, transparent, and thus barely perceivable, and small deadly Bags of toxins accumulate in large strands clumps.
Anyone infected with a cube jellyfish sting has little chance of surviving because the venom is absorbed very quickly, causing shock and respiratory paralysis.
Cube jellyfish, which are much larger than sea wasps, are all highly toxic, so it is likely that Chirodectes maculatus Its bite is also a serious danger.