Divers handling shells on tropical reefs face a threat that most never see coming. Cone snails, slow-moving marine gastropods found across warm oceans, can fire a single hollow, harpoon-like tooth ...

Tucked among the reefs of tropical seas is a sea snail whose beautifully patterned shell hides one of the ocean’s most ...

Cone shell is one gastropod whose reputation as underwater warrior definitely precedes its popularity as a real looker. For hundreds of years, collectors have risked life and limb, literally, for the ...