Friday, March 21, 2014

The Textile Cone Snail

Photo: A snail on the seafloor



Textile Cone Snail


This innocuous-looking snail is actually one of the planet’s most toxic creatures. Textile cone snails “harpoon” their prey with hollow teeth, through which they inject a lethal venom. Their most common victims are mollusks, though the snails have been known to eat their own kind when meals are scarce.










(source:google/http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/)



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