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Box Jellyfish

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Based on a conversation I had after watching a documentary about Box Jellyfish.
They can’t sting you on land... right?

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Sketched on 9”x12” Strathmore Series 400 sketch paper. Image finalized and painted in Photoshop CS 2. About a week from concept to completion.

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You can only touch its bell and this is the deadliest one (it’s also ranked as the world’s most venomous being, and they’re 3 of this).

But if it’s venom is the most toxic one, it has exceptions which I’ll say in the comment so that you can go to any beaches:

  1. It has predators such as the sea turtle.

  2. There is remedies such as Anti-venoms.

  3. If you or somebody got stung with the tentacles rapped everywh on you, you can rinse the affected area with vinegar which will stop the stinging cells from firing before applying a 40-45 degrees hot pack which will cancel the sting of reaching and attacking your heart, nervous system and skin cells, which was teached and learned by Dr. Angel Yanagihara, which in Australia they only know vinegar like remedy but if you don’ apply heat before or after putting vinegar, the pain will get worse, and worse, and worse, then will cause cardiac arrest.

  4. That one only lives in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Malaysia. (but if you think it lives in the Philippines for example, it‘s actually not this one but another one from it’s genus since the Australian box jellyfish or Chironex fleckeri is from the genus Chironex and if you didn’t know, they actually are 3 species in this genus with the same venom, what’s different from each other is their size, names, and locations.

  5. If you still can’t go to the beach at Australia, for your safety you can swim inside swimming nets where you could find a species from the genus Chironex in the warm waters in South Asia and in North-east to North-west of Australia, but if you swim out of the beach nets, it’s n matter of ”if you get killed” but it’s actually “when you get killed” and it really plays with your life.


Here, now I told you everything I learned about the world’s most Venomous living being that has enough venom to kill 60 humans only when it’s fully grown, but I also told the way to treat the sting from Dr. Yanagihara who was stung by the Hawaiian box jellyfis before she became the researcher who helps people from Box jellyfish sings all across the countries with different species with different venom.


And lastly in Australia the box jellyfish species are not one but a small number which in the nets which do a good job against the Chironex, is no barrier against it’s less venomous cousin the Irukandji jellyfish, and since it’s also known as the smallest jellyfish in the world since the bell is the size of you thumbnail, it’s not only small but also hard to see in the water since it’s transparent, it swims inside nets in mostly Queensland where it was first discovered, but this small guy is not a species, they’re small and very venomous which the most venomous ones are Carukia barnesi, and Malo kingi, which the small guy and other very venomous box jellyfish stings can make you caught the Irukandji syndrome, a sickness getting this name since it’s more those cold blooded small Irukandjies who give it. This sickness starts from 20 to 30 min. after healing the sting. It causes Nausea, Diarrhea, Vomiting, high blood pressure, severe pain, faster heart rate, kidney pain, severe stomachaches, big headaches, back pain, cramps, sweating and more body events from the sickness. If the sting of the Irukandji jellyfish is not healed, instead having Irukandji syndrome, it can make the victime falling in a coma and it can cause a heart attack and kill the victim if the number of stinging cells was more than dozens of them, and the Irukandji jelly also has stinging cells on it’s bell, and it’s less venomous than the Chironex, so it means the biggest and smallest box jellyfishes are deadly, but you can take the Chironex with bare hands if you didn’t knew, but if you want to take one, you must take it by the bell which is the only part of the venomous master that doesn’t have stinging cells on it, but before you take it by the bell with your gloveless hands listen to this, you can’t do this alone unless you’re an expert in these venomous guys, if you don’t know much about them, you can’t go grab this alone or if you’re stung because it’s tentacles got in contact in your body by the strong air of the hot place, you’re not gonna be able to call help, so experts are always careful to take them because you and they must make sure to stretch your arm(s) to make sure that it’s tentacles are fare from your feet to chest or like I said, the wind may blew the tentacles on you, so no matter what, those that aren’t experts, if you really want to catch a Chironex with bare hands, you must be with experts, you can go if you want to or if they’re finding one for making anti-venom in Australia, and if you go in the water to find one, where a dark swimming suit as a barrier so they won’t sting, why? Because a box jellyfish has 24 very small eyes, box jellyfish are the only jellies with eyes after what the search says. And they have a blurry vision so people with lighter skin are hard to see, but people with dark skin are visible to them, so if it see you with dark colours, it will know that you’re not prey, and will turn around to avoid you safely while it continues hunting, but I propose you to where snow pants and boots so that you won’t get stung even if it’s tentacles touches your legs, and to grab an Australian one, all you need is to take it’s bell with your bare hands, and pull it slowly out from the water, some of them have some tentacles rapped on their bell, and if you find one with the bell rapped with tentacles, go pick another on or you’ll be stung, and when you grab with no tentacles on the bell, you must not shake it while taking it or it will create a little vortex close to your fingers which can absorb a tentacle and sting you, and you can also eat one as an South Asian plate by cutting of the tentacles, taking of the guts and organs, cutting it’s bell into cubes, spraying fruits and sauce, and mixing it, and you can see a video of an Asian fisher catching and cooking it.


i have now explained allot, you can check out if you don’t believe me.