Jellyfish, Although Beautiful But Deadly

When viewed from the shape and color is beautiful jellyfish, but jellyfish including marine animals that are very deadly. Jellyfish stings can cause itching in human skin and cause death. One type of jellyfish sting is so deadly Chironex fleckeri. His body was shaped like a bell, consisting of tens or hundreds of tentacles that contain deadly poison.


Jellyfish
Jellyfish

If one of Chironex fleckeri's stinging tentacles of the human body, the poison can make a person dies in less than five minutes. And until now have not found the antidote poison. Deadly jellyfish is sometimes not visible in the water because of his color transparent. Body length varies in width between 40-20 cm and length 10 cm.

Although his body transparent, tentacles have purple or bluish color and it will look when removed from his body. Tentacles have a length of more than one meter. The tentacles contain a poison that is very high. These tentacles are used to find food and protect themselves from enemy attacks.

jellyfish facts
jellyfish facts

Jellyfish Chironex fleckeri species abundant in the northern coast of Australia, in coastal Atlantic waters of the eastern United States, and the Indian ocean.