Beach visitors are being warned not to touch or pick up a particular type of shell known as the cone snail, as its venom is powerful enough to cause instant paralysis and, in severe cases, even death.

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as stro ...

BEACHGOERS are being urged not to pick up a certain type of shell as its venom can cause instant paralysis – or even death.. Cone snails’ shells are narrow at the base and wide at the opposite ...

It wasn’t until after the outing that Rawls identified the creature as the cone snail—a predatory gastropod mollusk with enough venom to kill up to 700 people.. @beckyleeinoki/TikTok ...

TikTok video shows tourist collecting the shell of a lethal cone snail at an Okinawa beach, unaware that the snail uses venom that causes full body paralysis within minutes.

News on cone snail. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 days all. Rank. Last day 1 week 1 month all. ... Snails have a reputation for being slow, with poor eyes that can barely see the world around them.

Beckylee Rawls, 29, showing the cone snail shells she's collected, and the one she found in Japan. @beckyleeinoki / TikTok. Once she realized it was still alive, she ...

In cone snail venom, consomatin’s specific and long-lasting effects help the animal hunt its prey, but it could also lead to the development of better drugs for sometimes fatal diseases–if we ...

OKINAWA, Japan (WJW) — If it’s a cone, leave it alone — that’s what Beckylee Rawls learned after she went to the beach and held death in her hand last week. Rawls, a 29-year-old who lives ...

Snails with the largest eyes are keeping a lookout for predators, new research suggests. While the basic eyes of most snails look like small black dots, conch snails known as strombids have eyes that ...