“If you ever come to Australia, please don't touch ANYTHING, on land or in the water,” quipped another user. Cone snails are marine mollusks equipped with a specialized tooth, or "radula ...

Australia. In a previous study, Watson showed that jumping snails were less able to escape attacking cone snails when exposed to higher levels of CO 2. Together, the studies are the first to show ...

We were chased by a few birds on our road trip around Australia protecting their babies (as I tried to protect mine). It gave us loads of giggles. Another venomous sea creature is the cone snail.

A smaller number indicates more concentrated venom, with the most venomous species gaining a rating of 1. These are Australia's most venomous animals, ranked by their LD50 rating.

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, ...

The small white-coloured jellyfish inhabits oceans that are around Australia. Even though small ... it having been bitten if not treated. The Cone Snail Beneath its seemingly innocent facade ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether cone snails ...

Ashy pebblesnails are small, tan or reddish snails with pale circles around their tentacled eyes. The shortface lanx is sometimes referred to as the giant Columbia River limpet for its characteristic ...

The focus of their research is the investigation of the mechanism of action of toxins from cone snails interacting with voltage gated ion channels. The aim is to establish new tools for studying the ...