The cone snail uses consomatin to paralyze its prey. The toxin stops blood sugar levels from rising, which is fatal for fish.

One of the world's most venomous creatures could be a new source of inspiration for drugs to treat diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people, a new study suggests. Led by researchers from ...

Abalone has a long history in California, but the sea snail is in short supply today. One of the state’s last commercial ...

But halfway across the world, there's another type of snail that is just as popular. And it's called ốc, or "sea snails." In the streets of Vietnam, people have been eating them for centuries.

Eelgrass, a type of flowering seagrass found in temperate zones around the world, provides habitat for many species, protects ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether cone snails ...

New painkiller, Prialt, based on the venom of a sea snail will be available in Britain from today. The drug Prialt, or ziconotide, has resulted from over 20 years' of research by the scientist ...

A limpet grazing on microscopic algae from the rocks in the marine intertidal zone. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 11 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS.