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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Cone snails are marine gastropods whose venoms comprise a complex array of bioactive peptides, collectively known as conopeptides, with conotoxins representing a major disulphide‐rich subset. These ...

If you think all snails are cute, harmless creatures, you haven’t met the cone snail. The sea dweller lives underwater and preys on fish, worms, and other gastropod mollusks. Snails don’t have claws, ...

With its small shell glinting beneath tropical waters, the Geographer Cone Snail is no ordinary ocean mollusc. Beneath its elegant spiral lies venom potent enough to kill a human. Found across ...

The Far North Queensland Hospital Foundation has given $280,000 to researchers to advance medical treatment and services in the region, including using a deadly sea creature’s venom to treat mental ...

The tapered cone shell is popular among seashell collectors for its colorful patterns, but the smooth mottled shells are also home to the cone snail which is capable of spewing a potent insulin-like ...

Foundation research and education committee chair, Professor John McBride, said grants ranged from a focus on diabetes to rheumatic heart disease and extracting molecules from bush foods. “Our aim ...

Researchers have found that variants of this cone snail venom could offer future possibilities for developing new fast-acting drugs to help treat diabetics. The tapered cone shell is popular among ...

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 ...