Sunday, May 23, 2021 12:05 am Terry Lilley / Special to The Garden Island Pupu’ala is the Hebrew Cone Shell Terry Lilley, Critter of the Week Share this story ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use harpoon-like teeth to inject venom that immobilizes their victims.

OKINAWA, Japan (WJW) — If it’s a cone, leave it alone — that’s what Beckylee Rawls learned after she went to the beach and held death in her hand last week. Rawls, a 29-year-old who lives in Okinawa, ...

SEE: Rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck Looking up the shell soon after, she discovered the pretty thing was a marbled cone and that the snail living ...

OKINAWA, Japan (WJW) — If it’s a cone, leave it alone — that’s what Beckylee Rawls learned after she went to the beach and held death in her hand last week. Rawls, a 29-year-old who lives ...

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 ...

Experts are warning summer vacationers to be on the lookout for a hidden flesh-eating beach threat that could kill them within minutes. Hiding inside some seashells could be a cone snail — a ...