User blog:YaxleyCola/The Box Jellyfish

There are nearly 30,000 jellyfish stings each month in North Australia. Few are fatal. There are also nearly 300,000 species of jellyfish, but the most toxic of them all is the Box Jellyfish. It swims from East Brisbane to North Darwin. Its sting is Irukanji, and after 20 minutes, unimaginable pain occurs. It causes the victim to loose control of His/Her body, and the venom soon enters the intestines making its way to the heart. A full grown Box Jellyfish can kill a grown man in 4 minutes. It is the most deadly animal in both land and sea, because it is the size of your finger nail, and as i mentioned, the sting. Once the victim gets the sting, millions of microorganism sized venom holders are injected into the body. Box Jellyfish have exsted for 650 million years before the dinosaurs. Its head can turn to the size of a bucket, and have tentacles almost 6 feet long.