Highly venomous new species discovered lurking in waters just off major city
Peter Stevens
A highly venomous new species has been discovered lurking in the waters of a major world city. The new type of box jellyfish - first found near a Singaporean island in 2020 - has now been described in a new report published in the journal Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. The new species has been named Chironex blakangmatim by researchers from Tohoku University and the National University of Singapore. It has been named after the Pulau Blakang Mati island - which translates to "Island of Death Behind