Cone snails are slow-moving, and use a venomous harpoon to disable faster-moving prey. The osphradium in cone snails is more specialized than in other groups of gastropods. It is through …

2024年10月31日 · Cone snails are marine animals that harpoon their prey and incapacitate them with deadly toxins. They may be beautiful, but they are highly venomous.

2025年3月21日 · Two of the deadliest cone snails are Conus geographus and Conus textile. Even with less than 100 deaths recorded, a cone snail’s strike is still dangerous to humans. One of …

A new study reveals that the fish-hunting cone snail immobilizes passing fish by firing a harpoonlike tooth at them. The entire process--from detecting the prey to stunning it--takes …

2019年8月30日 · With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, biologists have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail Conus catus. The researchers identified the snail's …

Here we argue that fish-hunting cone snails provide some of the best opportunities to elucidate the role of behavior as a catalyst in the evolution of biochemical, developmental, physiological …

2019年8月19日 · Cone snails are venomous marine gastropods that pierce their prey with a hydraulically propelled radular harpoon. Schulz et al. show that the cone snail prey strike is …

2025年3月24日 · Cone snails possess a long harpoon-like structure, which is a modified tongue. The tongue can be several times longer than the snail itself. It has no barbs, but a small tube …

2010年10月29日 · Scientists have discovered the secret of how an amazing sea snail injects its venom after shooting a harpoon-like tooth into its prey -- or some unlucky swimmer -- at …

Cone snails are venomous marine gastropods that hydraulically propel a hollow, chitinous radular harpoon into prey [1,2]. This radular harpoon serves both as projectile and conduit for venom …