Forget slow and steady. For the cone snail, it’s fast-acting chemistry that wins the race. Researchers have now shed light on the structure of a speedy insulin that cone snails use to paralyze prey.

Behind a pretty shell sits a precision hunter whose toxins can stop a heartbeat, yet also power pain relief and new diabetes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Post-doctoral researcher Ho Yan Yeung pulls samples of cone snail venom out of a ultra low temp freezer while explaining her ...

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The aptly named cone snail wears a house that resembles a Ben & Jerry’s receptacle, filled not with ice cream but with a squishy mollusk that sports an extendable, trunklike proboscis. The snails are ...

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, ...

If there's one thing Australia is famous for it's wanting to kill you. Sharks in the ocean, crocs in the river and the sun trying to grill you like a scotch filet. University of Queensland researchers ...

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 ...

But a recent study from the University of New Hampshire found these deadly cone snails could lead to promising new treatments for diabetes. Cone snails use their venom to immobilize and kill their ...

The tropical oceans of the world are strewn with the brightly colored and intricately patterned shells of cone snails—marine snails with more than 3,000 species worldwide. Within those opulent shells ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Storms are known to bring lots of different shells onto North Carolina beaches as they stir up the water. And while many of us like to collect shells on the beach, we are looking at ...

Cone snails aren't glamorous. They don't have svelte waistlines or jaw-dropping good looks. Yet, some of these worm-hunting gastropods are the femme fatales or lady killers of the undersea world, ...