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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I have vague memories of something called a Cone Shell that was supposed to be very poisonous.
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And that's a fact! Really nasty, painful wounds from that creature. Often fatal to smaller folks. Pick up the pretty shell, it whips out a long thin barbed stinger and nails you on the hand with a neurotoxic venom.
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Presumably there are few deaths from whatever it is because its habitat doesn't bring it into contact with humans very often.
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That's the one saving grace. And it doesn't move faster than a snail, which is pretty much what it looks like (although longer rather than rounder,) and you have to pick one up to get stung by it. Divers are taught early in our classes never to touch ANYTHING underwater... Although people do die from Coneshell poisoning, there are several creatures with much more deadly venom in the sea....
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