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.

And a handful are already being developed by companies in Australia and the US as non-addictive pain killers up to 10,000 times stronger than morphine. "With up to 50,000 toxins, cone snails may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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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 ...

Researchers discover Australian stinging trees carry a venom similar to that found in marine cone snails Australia has two species of stinging tree with needle-like hairs that act like syringes to ...

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 ...

After paralyzing the fish, the snail begins horking it down whole. Be forewarned that the six-inch-long snail’s table manners will be indelibly etched onto your mind’s eye upon watching this.

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