While most ants are harmless, the harvester ant has venom that rivals some of the deadliest snakes. Its sting is 20 times ...

This is said to be the world’s most poisonous animal. It is said that with the venom that a large scorpion uses to finish off ...

Tiny creatures like the Irukandji jellyfish, Blue-Ringed Octopus, Brazilian Wandering Spider, Cone Snail, Deathstalker ...

A toxin in the venom of the geography cone snail mimics a human hormone called somatostatin, which regulates levels of blood sugar and hormones in the body, researchers reported Tuesday in the ...

Commonly found in coral reefs or hiding in the sand, cone snails have a "harpoon-like" tooth, called a radula, that extends a tube and injects toxic venom. It is used to hunt and paralyze fish and ...

Enter the fascinating world of venom, where deadly stakes are intertwined with the possibility of wondrous healing.

This peptide, isolated from cone snail venom, has similar amino acid sequences to somatostatin. The researchers found that Consomatin pG1 could selectively activate SSTR 2 in human cells. SSTR 2 is a ...

A couple of months later he saw a picture of a similar shell online and was shocked to discover that he had held in his hands a cone snail, one of the world’s most poisonous animals.

Then a doctor told him about cone snails—a group of marine snails, beautiful but deadly—and a new drug, a synthetic derivative from the venom of one of them, Conus magus, the magician's cone.

Cone snail venom researcher Mandë Holford discusses the therapeutic potential of toxins found in animals. On March 7, researchers will rally in Washington, D.C. and other US cities to protest federal ...