The ocean’s beauty often hides unexpected threats, and one diver’s recent experience in Egypt’s Red Sea serves as a chilling ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea had a near escape after encountering one of the most venomous animals on earth.

Ozempic was derived from Gila monsters, a lizard native to the southwestern US; Prialt, used to treat chronic pain in HIV and cancer patients, comes from deadly cone snails; and captopril ...

A man shared his close call with a deadly textile cone snail while snorkeling in Egypts Red Sea. Initially unaware of the ...

A tourist who picked up a 'pretty' sea shell in Egypt's Red Sea was left stunned after discovering it was actually a highly ...

A cone snail toxin known to affect both insects and fish inspired Weizmann Institute scientists to develop a new way of finding molecular targets. By combining artificial intelligence with ...

She believes that many more toxins might contribute to this glucose-regulating hunting strategy and continues to dissect the cone snail’s deadly venom for clinical applications. Laura is an Assistant ...

Venomous cone snails attack their prey by shooting a cocktail of neurotoxins from a “harpoon-like barbed dart”, and can be found on beaches around the country, although the “deadly ones are ...