Demand from conotoxin researchers is growing too, since many shells may be needed to produce even small amounts of toxin. And coral reefs, which support more than half of all cone shell species ...

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.

The new species, Shishania aculeata, was covered with hollow, organic, cone-shaped ... seafloor over half a billion years ago. Unlike most molluscs, Shishania did not have a shell that covered ...

A newly discovered extinct mollusk species that skulked along the ocean floor half ... shells we see on today’s snails and bivalves. This species was also covered with hollow cone-shaped spines ...

Showing over a dozen types of cone-shaped shells, he says ... in Ariyalur and the other is from Nepal. “Nearly half-a-dozen shells and their impressions are embedded in these fossils ...

Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with ...