The first new species, Peltospira gargantua, was found on a black smoker chimney in the Hydra field at a depth of about 12,300 feet, researchers said.

Blood clotting is a complex, tightly regulated process involving numerous molecular steps and myriad biomolecules to carry ...

A WOMAN has been left terrified after returning from holiday and discovering a “deadly” scorpion in her home. It is believed the scorpion hitched a ride back in her luggage when she ...

What Frank didn’t realize at the time was that this seemingly harmless shell was not just alive, but one of the deadliest ...

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 shows some of the ...

But months after his vacation, Frank realized what he thought was a harmless creature was actually a venomous cone snail. Cone snails, which live in eye-catching patterned shells, have a toxin ...

and the poison will kill a human being after hours of it having been bitten if not treated. The Cone Snail Beneath its seemingly innocent facade, the cone snail is a prized animal, sought after ...

A couple of months later he saw a picture of a similar shell online and was shocked to discover that he had held in his hands a cone snail, one of the world’s most poisonous animals.

Venomous creatures have a lot of chemical compounds ... over and over again when they are successful. In this video, a cone snail uses its tongue-like proboscis to catch a fish.

The cone snail is a venomous invertebrate that can paralyze its prey – fish – instantly via a harpoon-like tooth. Its venom is composed of many toxins that have previously been found to block calcium, ...