Also of concern is the conus textile — identified by a largely white cone-shaped shell covered with brown triangles — which can similarly deliver a nasty cocktail of neurotoxins in its stings.

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use harpoon-like teeth to inject venom that immobilizes their victims.

The cone snail’s compound clocks in with a half-life of more than 158 hours (more than six and a half days) after in vitro treatment. That means compared to natural human somatostatin, this ...

OKINAWA, Japan (WJW) — If it’s a cone, leave it alone — that’s what Beckylee Rawls learned after she went to the beach and held death in her hand last week. Rawls, a 29-year-old who lives ...

Biswajit Gorai, Harish Vashisth. Structures and interactions of insulin‐like peptides from cone snail venom. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2021; DOI: 10.1002/prot.26265 ...

An investigation of the cone snail toxin has led to the development of a new method for studying molecular interactions. Researchers led by Izhar Karbat and Eitan Reuvenyat from the Weizmann Institute ...

It may sound counterintuitive, but researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute may have found a new source of relief for patients with cancer – poisonous cone snails. The research of Michael McIntosh, MD ...

Cape Lookout officials provided an update on Dec. 26, saying they had yet to hear from an expert but believe it’s possible the shell is a venomous Sozon’s snail’s shell. Sozon’s are found ...