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* Out of all these critters, the only ones that really cramp your style are the jellyfish. Sharks? Pfft, there's like three left. Spiders? Don't go picking up random bits of rusty iron. Snakes? Make a lot of noise whilst walking through undergrowth, wear tough shoes, etc. Stonefish/cone shells? Don't walk barefoot on reefs. Drop bears? Don't hang around underneath gum trees. But jellyfish? "Oh, I'm sorry if you wanted to go for a swim at that otherwise harmless sandy beach when it's 42 degrees. We'll just be floating around by our thousands, invisible and potentially fatal."
** Not to mention the Irukandji. The worst of the box jellyfish (an infamous class of jellyfish), they will actively seek out prey rather than drift along in the current, are the size of a fingernail, are transparent, can swim through anti-jellyfish safety nets on beaches and pack a horrifically painful sting which has 'a sense of impending doom' listed as a symptom on [[That Other Wiki]].
** Sure the little guys are scary, but on the other side of the scale, Australia is also home to a southern-hemisphere relative of the [[wikipedia:File:Jellyfish and shark - Sant Hall - Smithsonian.JPG|Lion's Mane jellyfish]]. Yes, that is a jellyfish that can grow up to 120 feet long, 8 feet across, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111053222/http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/lionsmane2.html whose stingers remain dangerous even after detached]. While there hasn't really been a ''recorded'' case of a person being eaten by one of these, isn't it nice to know that there are species of jellyfish actually capable of devouring you whole? Oh yea, and sometimes they swarm. Sleep well!
* They may not be dangerous to humans, but the only known variety of sea squirt that snares prey like a Venus fly-trap rather than passively filtering water lives just off Australia.
** Look at the rest of the list. Not dangerous to humans? Don't count on it.
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