Joseph Schulz, a biologist at Occidental College in Los Angeles, studies the biomechanics of how cone snails fire their harpoons, and led the efforts to document the phenomenon. Schulz’s team used cat ...

Kicking off our list of the best snails for a freshwater tank is the assassin snail. It looks as dangerous as it sounds, with a black and yellow striped, wasp-like shell.

In a world first, researchers have successfully reared cone snails in a laboratory aquarium, gaining rare insight into juveniles with different venom and unlocking the power of their complex ...

By rearing them in captivity, researchers have found that juvenile cone snails use a different cocktail of venoms than adult snails to kill their prey, and hunt worms rather than fish.

Cone snails are marine gastropods in the family Conidae, numbering around 700 species, all of which are highly venomous. These snails have a wide-ranging distribution but occur in the South China ...

In addition to insulins, geography cone snails, deadly fish hunters, use a selective somatostatin receptor 2 agonist that blocks the release of the insulin-counteracting hormone glucagon, thereby ...

If you think snails are harmless and even delicious delicacies, you may be surprised by the cone snail. These marine creatures are armed with deadly venom that can kill worms, fish, and even, in ...