Mysterious giant jellyfish re-exported after more than 100 years

After disappearing for 103 years, a powerful venom-rich pink jellyfish has just appeared near the coast of Australia.

In 1910, Alfred Gainsborough Mayor, an American scientist, discovered a large pink jellyfish near the coast of Cookstown, Queensland, Australia. Mayor calls the jellyfish Crambione Cookii . Back then, the scientific world did not know much about this mysterious animal. Based on Mayor's sketch, they only knew its body length was 50cm and its venom was very poisonous. Since then they have never seen a giant jellyfish again.

Giant pink jellyfish in UnderWater World park in Queensland, Australia.(Photo: SWNS)

Recently Puk Scivyer, an oceanographer working for UnderWater World Marine Park in Mooloolaba, Queensland, saw giant pink jellyfish when dropping turtles to the sea. She caught the jellyfish and took it to UnderWater World Marine Park, Daily Mail reported.

"As soon as I saw it, I knew it was a species that I had never seen. It was the largest jellyfish I've ever seen in Australian waters , " Scivyer said.

Crambione Cookii's venom is so strong that animals that swim in the water near it can lose consciousness.

Marine biologists do not understand why giant jellyfish can be "hidden" for more than 100 years. With the pink jelly that Scivyer captured, they can learn a lot about them - like their habitat, life, and quantity. Scivyer said that finding one more giant pink jellyfish is difficult.