The cone snail looks harmless enough: a beautifully patterned shell that a beachcomber might pocket without a second thought. Yet several of the roughly 800 species in the group are among the most ...

Divers handling shells on tropical reefs face a threat that most never see coming. Cone snails, slow-moving marine gastropods found across warm oceans, can fire a single hollow, harpoon-like tooth ...

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"They jab the worm with a harpoon-like structure before injecting it with venom to subdue it. "The juvenile snail then slowly stalks the worm and sucks it up, like a small piece of spaghetti." During ...

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video shows ...

Meet four animals that have mastered the art of chemical defense and offense. Sneak up on a bombardier beetle and it will ...

An investigation of the cone snail toxin has led to the development of a new method for studying molecular interactions. Researchers led by Izhar Karbat and Eitan Reuvenyat from the Weizmann Institute ...

Cone snails aren't glamorous. They don't have svelte waistlines or jaw-dropping good looks. Yet, some of these worm-hunting gastropods are the femme fatales or lady killers of the undersea world, ...