From the slow-moving snail heading down the path in your yard to the Giant African Land Snails that people keep as pets (why?

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Learn about our Editorial Policies. These findings inspired Ho Yan Yeung, a postdoctoral researcher in Helena Safavi-Hemami’s group at the University of Utah, to investigate whether cone snails ...

Cone snails are normally stealthy hunters, but they become clumsy and unfocused in water with increased levels of carbon dioxide. Oceans absorb CO 2 from the atmosphere. As atmospheric CO 2 levels ...

Tiny creatures like the Irukandji jellyfish, Blue-Ringed Octopus, Brazilian Wandering Spider, Cone Snail, Deathstalker scorpion, and Harvester Ant, despite their small size, possess extremely ...

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation, says scientists and science journalists can do more to help the public think critically about scientific news. Plus, astronomers detect the first ...

Ashy pebblesnails are small, tan or reddish snails with pale circles around their tentacled eyes. The shortface lanx is sometimes referred to as the giant Columbia River limpet for its characteristic ...

This year's awardees discovered a non-opioid pain reliever, hidden in the venom of tiny cone snails, which greatly decreases pain for patients with chronic illnesses while helping researchers ...