Cone shells contain therapeutically useful peptides including the conotoxins, and one such peptide, ziconotide, has been approved.

The combination of beauty and danger possessed by cone shells provides multiple lessons.

David, village chief of Belen in Calabanga, narrates that the storm surge dumped tons of bugitis (tiny cone shells) on 114 ha of rice fields on their village and the adjoining Barangay Paolbo.

Many particularly -- cowries, topshells and cone shells -- play host to hermit crabs.

Although blind, the professor deftly navigates his marine environment while handling extremely toxic cone shells. When he finds a potential cure for malaria, his hermetic life is disrupted by reporters and family.

13), but the sponge also protects the dolphin from the deadly cone shells that hide in the sand.

"Cone shells do exist in Shark Bay, but we rarely see them and didn't see them in our own sponging efforts," says researcher Janet Mann.

Finally they asked him about cone shells and the strength of cone venom, about how many visitors had come.

Chapter 5, "Dangerous Waters," is where some of the more notorious marines species are treated, including the sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) on which Berra bestows the title "most venomous animal known." Blue-ringed octopus, cone shells, stonefish, and firefish (also known as lionfish and turkeyfish) are other poisonous creatures presented.

Deadly seashell Cone shells are familiar to most people as holiday souvenirs.

Cassowary feathers, bird of paradise plumes, and cone shells ground down to make breast pendants, found their way from Papua New Guinea into the islands, while pearl-shell and dugong harpoons, as well as spears and spear-throwers from Cape York, moved north and into Papua New Guinea (Moore 1979, 301).

Gone were the cone shells and cowries, the turtles, the schools of dolphins Imagine our shock.