In Hawai‘i we have a lot of cone shells that are from two inches to four inches long but very thick. When the snail inside the shell dies or gets eaten, their thick shell gets ground up in the ...

Worldwide, there are more than 600 kinds of cone shells found mostly in tropical waters around the Pacific. Collectors love them because their shells are decorated with an amazing array of ...

As one researcher has discovered, it is possible to reclaim those lost colours -- at least on the shells of cone snails ... which -- with over 600 living species -- is the most diverse genus ...

Unlike their modern relatives, the 4.8-6.6 million-year-old fossil cone shells ... remaining in the shells fluoresces, revealing the original coloration patterns of the once living animals.

That is the conclusion of research just published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters. Scientists from the US examined whelks and cone shells preyed on by the crab Calappa flammea. They ...