The cone snail uses its venom to paralyze its prey so that it can eat them at its leisure; sadly, for humans, it carries enough venom to potentially kill 700 people.

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

Cone snails are marine gastropods in the family Conidae, numbering around 700 species, all of which are highly venomous. These snails have a wide-ranging distribution but occur in the South China ...

The cone snails toxins affect the nervous system and can cause paralysis, which can lead to respiratory failure and death. While rearing the cone snail in an aquarium, the scientists discovered a ...

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But early work on peptides from the cone snail venom suggests it works in a very different way - even 10 times the effective pain-killing dose seems to bring no side effects.

Researchers have found thousands of new peptide toxins in the venom of one type of predatory cone snail, Conus episcopatus, which can be found along Australia's east coast and is one of the 700 ...

Then 24, Petway had been stung by a cone snail. It is among the world's deadliest snails and is armed with venom-tipped stingers capable of stopping a human's breathing within minutes.

Earlier research on a wide range of cone snail insulin was narrowed in the latest study to focus on one, Conus geographus G1 (Con-Ins G1), “the smallest known insulin found in nature”.

An international research team led by Drs. Helena Safavi of the University of Utah and Michael Lawrence of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia set out to characterize ...

Although moderately mobile, marine cone snails have perfected several strategies to capture prey. Some fish-hunting species release venom into the surrounding water. Within the plume of toxic venom, ...