Cone Snails have an arsenal of tools and weapons under their pretty shells. These reef-dwelling hunters nab their prey in microseconds, then slowly eat them alive.

This toxin is surprisingly similar to venom found in spiders and cone snails, according to the researchers. These trees grow in eastern Australia, particularly along the slopes and gullies of ...

Scientists in Australia and the United States have unlocked the structure of an insulin that cone snails use to stun their prey. Understanding how this sea snail venom works so quickly may inspire ...

Cone snails are normally stealthy hunters, but they become clumsy and unfocused in water with increased levels of carbon dioxide. Oceans absorb CO 2 from the atmosphere. As atmospheric CO 2 levels ...

“We do have a couple of cone snails in North Carolina,” Young said. According to "The Seashells of North Carolina", there are ...

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Olivera is the lead scientist at a 25-person lab that studies cone-snail venom. His job is to figure out how it works, and transform it into drugs that could soothe and save human lives.

Cone snails shoot venom-tipped harpoons into their prey, such as fish, immobilising them long enough for the mollusc to consume them. They have been responsible for serious injuries and some ...

Some cone snail species, such as Conus geographus and Conus tulipa, release a venom that paralyzes their prey. And then the snail will devour those fish whole, using its elastic, tube-sock-shaped ...

Our story begins last year, when researchers in Utah and Australia took a look at two specific snails, including the geographic cone snail Conus geographus. They noticed that the snails’ venom ...

University of Utah researchers have found that the structure of an insulin molecule produced by predatory cone snails may be an improvement over current fast-acting therapeutic insulin. The finding ...

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