Then, when its victim comes near, the cone shell extends a proboscis armed with a harpoonlike tip that injects venom filled with special chemicals called “conotoxins.” These toxins stop nerve ...

I found a LIVE textile cone shell. This animal will kill in less than 9 minutes. I thought it was empty. Please do not pick up cone shells without gloves. Number 4 most DEADLY animal on earth." ...

Thousands of people here in Hawai‘i and around the world wear this shell around their neck, but few people have ever seen a live textile cone shell. The famous puka shells are made by the large ...

In Hawai‘i we have a lot of cone shells that are from two inches to four inches long but very thick. When the snail inside the shell dies or gets eaten, their thick shell gets ground up in the ...

We used a viability assay based on cone-enriched primary cultures from ... The systematic expression cloning strategy that we used led to the identification of a protein from a family that has ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. There’s a constant roar of noise inside of the huge convention halls that ...

What wasn't to like about the Choco Taco? From the easy-to-hold waffle cone shell to the simple vanilla ice cream filling, all dipped in chocolate and topped with peanuts, this treat was a ...

Our Anti-aircraft shell nose-cone represents the part played world-wide by defences attempting to protect ciivilians against merciless bombing from the air. It was the fuse for a shell fired into ...

Researchers have found that variants of this cone snail venom could offer future possibilities for developing new fast-acting drugs to help treat diabetics. The tapered cone shell is popular among ...

A new video, released by the company on Twitter, shows a recent drop test of the rocket’s nose cone, the bulbous shell that shields the vehicle’s satellite and then breaks away during flight.

Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell is looking for commercial opportunities to take advantage of rising natural gas consumption in the Southern Cone, Shell's Southern Cone gas and power president Atonio ...