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 shows ...
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The World’s Deadliest Snail Can Kill a Human in Hours
It’s known as the geographer cone, the geography cone, or the geographic cone, and it’s the world’s most venomous of the 500 ...
Post-doctoral researcher Ho Yan Yeung pulls samples of cone snail venom out of a ultra low temp freezer while explaining her research inside of a lab in the Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building ...
Scientists already know that the venom of cone snails, which prowl the ocean floor for a fish dinner, contains compounds that can be adapted as pharmaceuticals to treat chronic pain, diabetes and ...
Dr. Ho Yan Yeung, PhD, first author of the study (left) and Dr. Thomas Koch also an author of the study (right) examined a freshly collected batch of cone snails. SAFAVI LAB VIA SWNS They said the ...
It might be time to rethink the phrase “moving at a snail’s pace.” New research shows that cone snails — ocean-dwelling mollusks known for their brightly colored shells — attack their prey faster than ...
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Venomous or poisonous? Know how snakes, frogs, and plants use toxins in strikingly different ways
Nature's deadliest creatures employ distinct defense mechanisms. Venomous animals inject toxins through bites or stings, like cobras and jellyfish. Po ...
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A toxin from one of the most venomous animals on the planet is giving scientists new clues about how to treat some serious, and potentially fatal human disorders. A multinational research team led by ...
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