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Lethal tentacles
The most dangerous animal in the lagoon, the box jellyfish can swim as fast as an Olympic swimmer and has 24 eyes. Its stinging tentacles release thousands of microscopic stinging capsules on contact with its prey and it is quite capable of killing a person.
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