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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Stromboidea sea snails provide some of the best examples of nature's different approaches to eyesight. While some members of the group, like the strombids, have well-developed eyes at the end of ...

Cornell University marine ecologists and computer scientists have shown that grazing by sea snails and other marine herbivores has a big impact on the scale of seagrass wasting disease — contributing ...

PETALING JAYA: Island tour guide Muhammad Aswat Azdha Idris has become a viral sensation on TikTok with his live sessions featuring the unique spectacle of sea snail racing. The excitement began ...