Worldwide, there are more than 600 kinds of cone shells found mostly in tropical waters around the Pacific. Collectors love them because their shells are decorated with an amazing array of ...

A textile cone snail was found in NSW. Picture: Harry Rose/Flickr In 1935, a man is believed to have been stung by a geography cone while in the Whitsundays. Typically, cone snails aren’t ...

Among the least-studied lineages are the Asprella cone snails. They’re not shallow-water snails, like some others. They like deeper waters, at depths of 200-800 feet (60-250 m), and have been less ...

She found one. A small peptide from the venom caused mice to act sluggishly or unresponsive. But it was slow-acting, hardly the expected effect since other cone snails produced venoms that acted ...