All the snail has to do is reel its prey into its giant parachute-like mouth and spit the bones out a couple of hours later. Other cone snails, like the geographer cone, creep up on sleeping fish ...

With a tube-like structure at the end of a venom bulb, and a modified tooth that can shoot out of the tube at 400 miles per hour (644 kilometers per hour), instantly incapacitating passing prey, it ...

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Though small, cone snails are formidable hunters, producing a variety of toxins—many of which are valuable for drug research—to immobilize prey and deter predators. In 2015, researchers discovered ...

A new James Cook University study using artificial intelligence to analyze the structure of cone snail venom has had mixed results—but points to a bright future for AI in the field of biological ...

The fossil shows extreme dental features, including strong jaws and a specialized tooth enamel, which indicate that it fed on snails—a diet ... a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia ...

No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

A new study has found that two species of predatory cone snails use insulin as a weapon to kill their prey. When the snail approaches a fish, it releases the insulin, which enters the fish's gills ...