The textile cone snail is a beautiful but dangerous creature. Its venom can paralyze or even kill. Scientists are studying ...

The Cone Snail’s Deadly Anatomy The most recognizable characteristic of a cone snail is its shell. These come in various colors and patterns, each serving as a warning.

Beckylee Rawls, 29, showing the cone snail shells she's collected, and the one she found in Japan. @beckyleeinoki / TikTok Once she realized it was still alive, she assumed it was "just a harmless ...

A cone snail has a cone-shaped shell, a fleshy foot, a head, and tentacles. Cone snails live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean and Red Seas, and along the coast of Florida. They are ...

News Weird News Travel Beach tourists urged to AVOID picking up eye-catching shell - it could kill you Beachgoers are being advised to steer clear of a particular type of shell known as the cone ...

It wasn’t until after the outing that Rawls identified the creature as the cone snail—a predatory gastropod mollusk with enough venom to kill up to 700 people. @beckyleeinoki/TikTok Rawls ...

As he examined the shell, he noticed it was still occupied. Unbeknownst to him, he was holding a textile cone snail, a seemingly harmless creature that harbors enough venom to kill an adult human ...

While she’d seen shells like this washed up on the beach before, this was the first time she had ever encountered a live cone snail. Startled, she gently placed it back into the tidepool.

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 have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry. Many artists, including Rembrandt, have featured ...