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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Newly discovered 24-eyed jellyfish is related to world's most venomous marine creature

A newly discovered species of jellyfish is in the same family as the most venomous marine creature in the world, scientists have found.

The previously unknown creature, which carries a highly dangerous sting, was discovered in a muddy pond by scientists at Hong Kong's Mai Po Reserve.

It has three tentacles, a transparent body less than an inch long and, most distinctively, a total of 24 eyes separated into four groups of six.

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