The man collected the seashell while snorkeling in Egypt's Red Sea, totally unaware that the shell was teeming with life.
Cone snails are highly venomous sea snails that can be found primarily in Western Australia and Queensland. Whilst they may look pretty, it’s no surprise that it’s advised not to touch them.
A few months later, he saw a picture of the same item online and it dawned on him: he held a cone snail. Dr. Nyssa Silbiger, an associate director at the Uehiro Center for the Advancement of ...
Professor Norelle Daly from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health ... the structure of a specific venom peptide of a cone snail—highly venomous sea snails which can paralyze prey almost ...