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 ...

This is said to be the world’s most poisonous animal. It is said that with the venom that a large scorpion uses to finish off ...

Beachgoers are being warned about avoiding handling creatures in coastal rock pools after the rare daytime discovery of a venomous sea snail. Underwater photographer Liz Hardaker runs a social ...

A couple of months later he saw a picture of a similar shell online and was shocked to discover that he had held in his hands a cone snail, one of the world’s most poisonous animals.

She believes that many more toxins might contribute to this glucose-regulating hunting strategy and continues to dissect the cone snail’s deadly venom for clinical applications. Laura is an Assistant ...