The ocean’s beauty often hides unexpected threats, and one diver’s recent experience in Egypt’s Red Sea serves as a chilling reminder. What started as an innocent underwater exploration quickly turned ...

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

Quinton had actually seen cone snails kill fish in an aquarium and on television, and it was a kind of magic, given that snails move at a snail's pace and generally cannot swim. "It took 20 ...

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

can inject venom that’s capable of killing a human. Fatality estimates vary, but the Carnegie Museum of Natural History claims there have been fewer than 100 deaths from cone snails. A 2004 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Death is certain within minutes. Even the most venomous cone snails take about one to five hours to kill a healthy human, though medical care must still be prompt as, without it, death is almost ...