One of the World’s Most Venomous Animals Is a Snail | The Atlantic
MBL’s Duygu Özpolat has helped track down the sophisticated hunting strategy of the imperial cone snail, which eats, among other things, the polychaete worm (Platynereis dumerilii) that the Özpolat lab uses for research on regeneration. The study, published this week in Science Advances, shows that the snail venom contains small molecules that mimic natural polychaete