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CRC Reef Research Centre
He was trying to find the jellyfish responsible for 'irukandji syndrome' - a set of symptoms suffered after a jellyfish sting ... jellyfish. His death was reported by the press to have been caused by an irukandji. The 58-year-old man had a pre-existing medical condition that made a jellyfish sting ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY
Odyssey log: Real Audio - >28k >64k November 20, 2001 'Box Jellyfish' "During the wet season, temperatures and humidity soar. You would ... with the most toxic animal on the planet, the Box Jellyfish." Read more >> Watch the Odyssey log: Real Video - >56k >200k ... sizes and shapes that include guitar fishes, skates, electric and sting rays, eagle rays and the unique shovelnose ray. Read more >> ...
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Sea Wasp | Marine Stinger | Box Jelly
Not as big as the world-record jellyfish, though (check it out). Silent Stalkers Sea Wasps, or box jellies, are not aggressive. They don't have to be. For jellyfish, they are pretty fast swimmers (up to 5mph), dangling their long ... died, but those who didn't may have wished they had. The sting from a box jelly is said to be excruciatingly painful. It can ...
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FM 21-76 Appendix F
Portuguese man-of-war Physalis species Although it resembles a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually a colony of sea animals. Mainly found in ... tentacles can reach 12 meters in length. These tentacles inflict a painful and incapacitating sting, but the sting is rarely fatal. Cone shells Conidae species These cone-shaped shells have smooth, ...
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Press Release Summary
Page Type: Press Release August 2006Jellyfish - Keep Your Distance! Jellyfish may look beautiful, but they can give you a painful sting. So keep your distance! Published: 02 Aug 2006 Page Type ...
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The Wonders of the Seas: Cnidarians
CNIDARIANS: SIMPLE ANIMALS WITH A STING! The Tealia anemone is a good example of an Anthozoan ... anemone, a Cnidarian (seen below). The Cnidarians include the hydroids, jellyfish, anemones, and corals. All Cnidarians have tentacles with stinging ... are usually free-swimmers, like jellyfish. This is why the anemone is sometimes called an upside-down jellyfish; that's just about ...
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Beneath The South Pacific Script
The mucous also tells the anemone not to sting the fish. In exchange for the ... Frequently found pulsating silently above the reef are jellyfish. Although these animals are commonly known as jellyfish, they are not fish at all. They ... capture prey. Some jellyfish are potent enough to injure or kill animals as large as humans! Unlike real fish, jellyfish are weak ...
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Reports 2005
I had the blue tentacle still making painful love to my foot when I fell to the ground and saw what it was. The sting was very painful ...
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CRC Reef Research Centre
October 2000 Tackling the big issues facing coral reefs 9 October 2000 Taking the sting from irukandji jellyfish 27 September 2000 Industry and science partners 25 September 2000 Qld ports given the ...
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Jellyfish - Keep Your Distance!
But with some of the larger jellyfish, such as the Compass Jellyfish and, particularly, the Lion's Mane Jellyfish, the sting can cause severe pain and might trigger a dangerour alergic reaction leading to anaphyactic shock, which will require immediate medical attention.   If you are stung by a jellyfish ...
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