With the summer holidays approaching, many will be looking forward to going abroad. But you should be careful when picking up ...

If you go down to the beach for a spot of rock pooling this summer, just be mindful of exactly which species you might come across. One person in Japan had a very lucky escape when she picked up a ...

She was stunned to discover that it was in fact a cone snail—one of the deadliest creatures in the world. Cone snails, part of the Conidae family, are a type of predatory gastropod mollusk that ...

Cone snails hunt and defend themselves with the aid of a harpoon-shaped tooth that delivers a venom that’s capable of causing respiratory failure and paralysis in some situations. As of 2018, there ...

Cone snail toxins to be used in mental health drug research project The Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation has given $280,000 to researchers to advance medical treatment and services in the ...

Cone snail toxins to be used in mental health drug research project The Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation has given $260,000 to researchers to advance medical treatment and services in the ...

Snails seem like slow, unassuming animals until you meet the cone snail. This mollusk packs a punch as one of the most predatory and venomous creatures crawling the seafloor. This YouTube video ...

The symptoms of a cone snail bite may include numbness, paralysis, breathing difficulties, and even death. Despite their dangers, cone snail venom has proved beneficial in medicine.

An investigation of the cone snail toxin has led to the development of a new method for studying molecular interactions. Researchers led by Izhar Karbat and Eitan Reuvenyat from the Weizmann Institute ...

Deadly beach threats moving down Australian coast There are over 800 species of cone snails and they are common throughout northern parts of the country.