Cone snail

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“As is true with many venomous animals, the Conidae (cone snail) family expresses specific combinations of toxins for capturing specific #prey types. Think of the venom like a #soup and each soup has a different combination of between 50 - 350+ ingredients by species! (5/n)”

This snail can shoot venomous tooth to stun fish! Learn more about the Cone Snail in this comic.

TEXTILE CONE SNAIL (Conus textile) You may think big whoop it’s a snail, but if you pick it up, you could be stung, and die. Cone snails are a big family of some 600 snails nearly all are venomous,...

"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire". - Robert Louis Stevenson.