The toxin, which is called consomatin, is from the geography cone snail. These creatures are a species of predatory sea snail ...

"None of this is true, but nevertheless very entertaining." Cone snails are a group of around 1,000 species of venomous, predatory marine snails that live mostly in shallow, tropical waters around ...

These marine snails combine exceptional vision, protective shells, and acrobatic leaping to evade deadly predators. Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research ...

Not to be deterred, biologists introduced another snail, hoping to kill off the African ones: the Rosy Wolfsnail (Euglandina rosea), native to the Southeastern United States. This predatory snail ...

It was thought that all these invasive predators had eaten the tiny snails to extinction. Then a series of conservation expeditions - between 2012 and 2017 - proved otherwise. Conservationists ...

Some barnacles are 'morphing' to protect themselves from predatory warm-water sea snails, which are expanding into their territory due to climate change. Research led by the University of ...

They are also just really cute.” The snails are living in the Ko‘olau Mountains in a fenced “exclosure” that keeps out predators such as rats, Jackson’s chameleons and rosy wolf snails ...

These marine snails combine exceptional vision, protective shells, and acrobatic leaping to evade deadly predators. Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research ...