Their cone-shaped shells are intricately patterned and brightly ... cone snails make efficient predators without those tools. Some sea snails, like most land snails, are herbivores, and don ...

Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them. But conch snails defy these expectations with eyesight as good as some vertebrates. These marine ...

obscuring an opening in their shells which can be attacked by predatory sea snails (muricids). Bent morphs have slower growth and lower reproduction than the standard cone-shaped barnacles ...

Prialt is a synthetic version of the venom used by the sea snail Conus magus, popularly known as the Magician's Cone Snail, to hunt prey. As a boy Professor Olivera used to collect the shells of ...