Recently, Beckylee Rawls and her husband went tidepooling in Okinawa, Japan, where they live While exploring the pools, the project manager noticed something unusual: the top of a beautiful shell.

The cone snail delivers a venomous sting capable of paralyzing — or even killing — humans Recently, Beckylee Rawls and her husband went tidepooling in Okinawa, Japan, where they live While exploring ...

She found a “cone snail,” a highly venomous species capable of causing anything from paralysis to death. An urban legend even nicknames this mollusk the “cigarette snail.” According to the legend, if ...