Then the cone harpoons the prey, leaving the fish to struggle for only one or two seconds before it is paralysed. The venom of the fish-hunting geography cone is potent enough to kill humans, making ...

Conus regius is a venomous mollusc in the Conidae family, which includes species responsible for severe or even fatal accidents affecting human beings. This is the first report on a clinical case ...

But the line between "poisonous" and "venomous" is often the most confusing, a distinction blurred to the point where the terms are used almost interchangeably. Scientists draw a critical ...

Oba, who specializes in bioluminescence, said the mollusks may be mimicking other luminescent creatures that are believed to glow partly to warn that they are poisonous. He cited the venomous ...