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Sascha Pare

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

Like other box jellyfish, the newfound species has 24 eyes arranged in clusters of six around its cubic body. (Image credit: Hong Kong Baptist University (screenshot from hongkongbaptistu on YouTube))

Scientists in Hong Kong have discovered tiny, cube-shaped box jellyfish in a brackish shrimp pond that are completely unknown to science.

The diminutive jellies have a completely transparent and colorless body, or bell, as well as 12 tentacles ending in small, paddle-like structures that enable the critters to speed through water faster than most other jellyfish species. 

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