Their elegant appearance belies a remarkably effective hunting technique. Cone snails have a hypodermic needle-like tooth to inject their prey with paralysing venom. The tooth is launched like a ...

In the tropical oceans, certain cone snails, such as the Geography Cone Snail, contain venom so deadly that it can kill a human being outright. The secret dangers: The venom, or conotoxin ...

But months after his vacation, Frank realized what he thought was a harmless sea creature was actually a venomous cone snail.

The study appears in Science Advances. Cone snails use a harpoon-like tooth at the end of their proboscis to inject venom into prey, instantly paralyzing them. Then, they slowly reel the immobilized ...

This peptide, isolated from cone snail venom, has similar amino acid sequences to somatostatin. The researchers found that Consomatin pG1 could selectively activate SSTR 2 in human cells. SSTR 2 is a ...

Yes, this creature that lives in the sea is called the Geography Cone Snail, or Conus geographus. This is said to be the world’s most poisonous animal. It is said that with the venom that a ...

This year's awardees discovered a non-opioid pain reliever, hidden in the venom of tiny cone snails, which greatly decreases pain for patients with chronic illnesses while helping researchers ...