Fish-Hunting Sea Snail Kills Prey with Toxic Vomit

In the pristine waters of Australia, a seemingly innocent cone snail crawls along the seafloor. But looks can be deceiving. The venom of the Geographer Cone Snail is one of the most toxic in the animal kingdom... For which there is no cure. The cone snail can release a cocktail of deadly toxins from the snail’s gaping maw, coating the prey in a toxic vomit.
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[@Sonikgav]

Fun fact, the reason there is no Anti-Venom is because these things never use the same venom twice. They literally mix it on the fly.

[@moamarmohammad5165]

That's not a "fun" fact

[@fooltruth]

And u think evolution is real. Look at the expanding universe. A creator must be evident. Even Albert Einstein believed that

[@mauriziowill6531]

Sounds like Fauci would be a good candidate to finding an anti venom considering he just "makes things up on the fly"

[@ThereIsNoSp00n]

@@fooltruth thats a terrible strawman. he said: "god does not play dice" this was an answer to quantum randomness, as einstein believed that the universe is predetermined. he was agnostic atheist and didn't believe in life after death. get your facts straight.

[@TheLochs]

Really, wow that is so interesting, thanks for the info!!

[@stevied9082]

That is a scary way to lose your life: paralyzed & watching your killer approach you in slow motion, eating you in slow motion 😬

[@KingvGio]

Yep

[@Wise400]

Kinda like sleep paralysis

[@pilotmburu]

Kinda like your 9-5 job

[@stevied9082]

@@pilotmburu .....😂 you may want to look into working at a different job if that's your situation.... life is too short to work at a place that you don't like.

[@kenrysolomon8770]

@@pilotmburu lmfaooo

[@JinrohDFLL]

damn everything in this neighborhood is venomous. ah. Australia. of course.

[@titan133760]

They aren't just native to Australia though

[@elizabethjohnson4612]

At first I was like "the snail had finally met its match" thinking the fish was standing its ground, not realizing it was already a living meat waiting to be devoured. What a way to die!

[@achinoy]

Ok, Australia is off the bucket list!

[@blackice6719]

What bucket list? You can’t even travel into Australia

[@knucklesskinner253]

@@blackice6719 it’s just for COVID it’s not like they’re cut off from the world lmao

[@marem3038]

What is Australia?

[@oneforall8161]

Swear man! So beautiful yet equipped with such deadly animals and insects smh

[@akale2620]

Rather make it the last item; as your likely to die in there.

[@ferrosjewellers4558]

No wonder prisoners were exiled to Auz.. They can't escape via the sea. Lol

[@clam741]

Not any safer on land even if u decide to stay

[@Mrebosie]

Plot twist: Even the camera man was paralysed by snail toxins while filming this.

[@kenk5269]

And got a rare first hand footage of him being swallowed inside, plus a bonus content of him being harpooned.

[@zacksrandomprojects9698]

Also footage of him being pooped out the next day...

[@xavierbean5218]

@@zacksrandomprojects9698 RIP Cameraman.

[@danielpark5134]

cameraman never dies.

[@Robert-xp4ii]

I thought I knew a little about the Cone Snail but somehow missed the part where they release their venom in the surrounding water. That proves just how toxic it is since the venom gets diluted exponentially the moment it's released. Amazing!

[@hughjaanus6680]

You may want to watch the video @ 2:14 it doesn't release venom into the surrounding water.

[@dbyers3897]

Watch it again. You missed something.

[@nucle4rpenguins534]

sedatives/chemicals NOT venom but yes, that was new to me as well

[@dirtyclickers7649]

This is why I don’t touch anything when scuba diving the plants, animals, coral all looks like it’s trying to kill you, hell even the environment wants you ☠️

[@mitsanut5869]

I'll take it a little further. That's why we have a thing called swimming pool

[@johannsebastianbach9003]

Especially when those people diving in the deep blue, They wont notice a 900000m shark is hungry and on the rise to eat them☠️☠️☠️

[@seekingknowledge4698]

😆🤣😂

[@msa4548]

Ignoring the great white: there's box jellyfish, blue ring octopus, stone fish, cone snails, possibly sea snakes. Not to mention everything venomous on land as well.

[@tylerkeller8869]

@MSA 454: the stone fish. Thats the one from Blue Lagoon, right?

[@raw_meat7234]

the great white probably wont kill you, not as much as the other examples you gave

[@petulantpeterturbo]

The great white is the least threatening thing on that list, you have to reeeeally be careless to get a great white to attack you.

[@xavierbean5218]

Dolphins (it kind of depends but they are similar in hostility.)

[@anotherguy9402]

That's why it's called the land down under. Welcome to hell 😂

[@chriswelcome8102]

What the hell. Even the snails here in Australia are crazy!

[@ewjiml]

I wouldn’t be shocked if toilet paper in Australia is venomous .

[@oryxthetakenking8275]

@@ewjiml there is that one plant that some dude used its leaves as toilet paper, and it gave him such a bad burn he killed himself

[@ewjiml]

@@oryxthetakenking8275 lmao.

[@arrowtt3364]

​@@oryxthetakenking8275 Gympie Gympie leaves by chance?

[@QuintenWhyte]

​@@oryxthetakenking8275God Damn!!!😮😮😮

[@arnellmilhouse7057]

SEA WARS! That snail just used a Jedi Mind trick on that fish. "I am not a predator that you should be afraid of. Do not be concerned by the large object enveloping your body". Snail Vader

[@Bakedea87]

That snail is scary lol

[@123TauruZ321]

That's the most stupid thing I've ever read.

[@isaidwtfover]

Gay.

[@rubbish9231]

Thats very much overpowered living thing. It can pause others. This is superpower.

[@yagamilight6261]

It is like the time has stop to his prey.

[@aayonce4]

Definitely a Pokémon

[@ezkrolynx3264]

The least worrisome predator there is the Great White, and that says something

[@addamrobin2]

This isn't exactly helping Australian tourism

[@LyricSnowe]

They said 30 deaths in total. Thats nothing

[@Hurricane0721]

It’s important to know that there are cone snail species outside of Australian waters that should be treated as a potentially dangerous animal. For instance, there are cone snails found in the waters off Florida and the Caribbean that are not considered deadly like some of the Australian cone snails, but can still give a nasty sting. So if it’s a cone, then leave it alone!

[@randylalrinsanga3078]

I am always amazed by the fact that the snails can swallow prey as big as they inside their shelled body, which is probably non expandable.

[@SplashAttackTCG]

Snail: *this isn’t even my final form!*

[@northernsoutherngirl]

I was expecting to see snail vomit! Lol!

[@aaohknsn]

we all clicked to see some snail vomit toxic gue in mortal kombat reptile style

[@JNL37Dyxce5]

I have animals and birds look👍🐘

[@johnwt7333]

It reminded me of Cell from Dragon Ball Z absorbing the androids.

[@majinbu335]

Cell is so weak. I am the strongest. Do you agree or shall I make you 🍫?

[@fredo7482]

This snail is more violent

[@STRYDER63]

@Majin Bu Bon appetit

[@JNL37Dyxce5]

I have animals and birds look⭐😊

[@zacharyjames9602]

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[@JeffersonJaikar]

It's like an assassin filling their target's room with weed smoke before they stab them!!

[@BLOODKINGbro]

Pretty accurate

[@lawtecke9427]

The word assassin derives from haschich

[@The_Nickromancer]

That was the scariest thing I've seen in the ocean so far

[@sbomorse]

It's amazing that it can release enough chemicals to paralyze a fish without it getting diluted and washed away.

[@dewinmoonl]

right, and the fact that it can smell the fish means the fish must be "up-wind" from where the snail is, so a lot of it must be washed away

[@BorisKOUKA]

​@@dewinmoonlmaybe he smelled the fish upwind and then moved back wind to release his venom. You see it moving around on the dead angle of the fish

[@limcw6092]

@@BorisKOUKAif so, that is seriously smart, never thought animals can be this smart thinking

[@QuanieMASIN]

Imagine just minding ya Business and next thing you know you got awake paralyzed- then just ate whole.

[@shrimboy7492]

Bravo to the writer of this show. Awesome and with a touch of sinister humor!

[@josephmartin6219]

Incredible creation!!

[@sdragut]

excellent narration and video

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@theussr5459]

Why do i like this channel so much

[@IfYouKnowYouKnow.]

Because it loves nature

[@Mrgraffiti1000]

As they say in the video, it is beautiful, Wild, dangerous and full of toxic

[@cravenlestat7006]

Names tons of scary deadly things lurking on the beach shallows waiting to take your life followed by a huge Love Nature 4K graphic. NOPE!!! Nature you sure is scary.

[@MahendraHarishInti]

Love the narration

[@pepelefrog1121]

Oh Jesus...... Thanks for cheering me up for my next trip to straya the next year.

[@don4298]

Conus Geographus. I filmed a Geographus fighting a octopus years ago when I lived on Guam in 1973. It was pretty cool. Geograpus Lost and became a a part of my Shell Collection. Geograpus is also one of the few who can shoot backwards. I also dissected one, I wonder if the Harpoons are still potent.

[@williamc.6168]

2:56 that's what i do after i pee to make sure i get every last drop out.

[@danteilham3999]

The last minute was the opposite of tourism ads

[@jessicajohnson5817]

Everytime I think to vacation in Australia I see some crazy deadly creature that Changes my mind. 🤧🤧🤧

[@thedahkterizzin8831]

The most insane thing I've seen today. Thanks

[@seatabarnett6772]

Wow I was amazed at how the snail catch the fish.

[@edpowell5754]

From Buffalo, New York. That was extremely interesting, Thank you for putting this video together.

[@joshclayton6436]

I can just about see the reflection of the camera on the glass of the aquarium these pets are in lol Couldn't even get a real ocean photographer

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

It's always a fatal dose of venom. It's never a non-fatal dose of venom. Just once, I'd like to hear a narrator explain, "It's capable of delivering a non-fatal dose of venom."

[@dbyers3897]

According to your statement, anyone bit by a rattler should die. Most survive even without anti-venom. There are numerous factors involved. Size of the victim, location of the bite, toxicity of the creature, what if any first aid was attempted, etc. Being injected with a strong neurotoxin while undersea would likely result in a quick death. All spiders for instance are venomous. It's a matter of proportions. Generally, spider venom is only effective on victims approximately the size of the spider or smaller due to the quantity & strength of the venom. The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider is particularly dangerous but seldom fatal to humans except rarely to small children. Anyone stung by a scorpion, wasp, fire ant, etc will tell you it hurts like hell. It's the venom that causes pain, swelling, redness but it is not lethal unless you are unfortunate to have a rare but sometimes fatal allergic reaction called anaphylaxis which can close off your airway.

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

@@dbyers3897 According to your statement, you are patronizingly overanalytical and nitpicky, speak in long-winded prose without stopping to take a breath and don't have a funny bone in your entire body.

[@polyflo2010]

Now I understand why fishes are never fully asleep. You just can't when there's such thing living within your neighborhood

[@hanisrosli5484]

😅😅poor fish

[@littleiron6207]

Australia, where even a harmless looking snail could kill you

[@palindrome__3746]

A zoo by my house has these snails and they are one of my favorite snails to just sit and watch! I just wish they weren't SUPER dangerous

[@elizabethroberts6215]

……aah, the wonders’ of ‘Down Under’. My father taught me about all lurking sea creatures’, & ocean rips. Always wear sand shoes’ when swimming in creeks’, too………🇦🇺

[@BradiKal61]

Yikes. I knew cone snails had that super toxic harpoon trick but I had never heard about the sedative attack cloud. As a kid I lived on the island of Okinawa and kids got special lessons about two things- leftover booby traps and munitions from WWII that were still all over the islands, and also the toxic sea snakes and cone shells in the ocean.

[@had2galsinthebooth]

I was in the ocean once for 5-10 minutes and that's enough to last me forever. Everyone else can have my share of ocean swimming.

[@pradeepkumargrandhi7878]

Awesome video & Narration..!

[@drumma_drumma1999]

I was sitting on the toilet while watching this……instantly got up

[@deadgoon2170]

For a channel that "Love's Nature" you sure ply the fear..

[@00_the_end_is_near_00]

*Before video:* I've always wanted to learn how to surf board *One minute into video:* 👁👄👁 No surfing, got it 👌

[@grantasilom5844]

Damn, we ate these cone snails in Philippines, never thought they're deadly. If you clean & cook them, their shells has many patterns depends on the species.

[@rupeniugavule3479]

Thats different then the one in australia mate

[@grantasilom5844]

@@rupeniugavule3479 we also have cone snails in Philippines, might not the same species.

[@Thenotfunnyperson]

Lots of different kinds

[@Dragon4eva]

@@grantasilom5844 thats literally his point. They’re not the same

[@grantasilom5844]

@@Dragon4eva they both have venom but might be less potent

[@xtreme1002003]

The chemicals the snail releases into the water to stun the fish contain a stripped-down version of the fish’s version of insulin. When the fish absorbs this molecule, it experiences hypoglycemic shock.

[@thewhisperingsylph8738]

"... in solitude and safety" Safety from what? It's already way too toxic to be attacked.

[@mathiasvelicoff1454]

Just like me ex

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

Send in an Asian mother

[@luvzdalewds315]

Dang that fish was just trying to get a crabbypatty.. 😥

[@UFOinDisguise]

I love the "These Deadly Australians" part

[@siegfriedkleinmartins7816]

That's why it's been more than 20 years I don't go to the beaches anymore. I always had preference for wimming pools......and mountains!

[@zacksrandomprojects9698]

Poor fishy. He is in fish heaven now.

[@thepinkpuppers8015]

Am I the only one who hears the...ahem...70s adult film sounding soundtrack slapping in the background while this guy's soothing voice narrates a cone snail doin its thing (very well btw, this is very informative and I mean no insult, the music just seemed...displaced lol. guess I'm too used to David Attenborough in my nature docs)

[@timelesskoontah]

I thought the fish was paralyzed and couldn't move...🤔🤔🤔

[@randomcon123]

Lovely video… although I am not sure Tourism Australia would have approved the last bit

[@JNL37Dyxce5]

I have animals and birds look🐱🐱

[@IsaacGames7]

The music sounds like it’s from grand turismo and I love it!

[@poliincredible770]

Great video, thanks for sharing observable information and not trying to interject patently unobservable Darwinian assumptions.

[@mattizzle81]

Ok I'm sticking to freshwater lakes from now on 😂

[@evafuentes1888]

Does anybody know what is the yellowish creature which appears at the end (when the voice is saying "deadly")?

[@taze27]

😆 leaves the "crime" scene....so the snail committed murder.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

No body. No crime lol

[@ITech2005]

Imagine something like this, on land, the size of an elephant...

[@123TauruZ321]

Yeah, great, it could eat all the lions.

[@LyricSnowe]

Imagine something like this the size of the planet. Idk why that matters but just imagine it

[@ITech2005]

@@LyricSnowe Im just sayin. It's method of hunting is like something straight out of a horror or an alien movie. Even one the size of a goat would be terrifying.

[@zachreyhelmberger894]

Wow! That is scary to think it can paralyze from a distance!.

[@darrylcarr]

Thanks for the tip mate😱

[@sharkboibjskitsplushiesstu3645]

Me: sees title Also me: you could’ve just said cone snail

[@mikerimmel5337]

This is why I don’t go in lakes or oceans cuz I don’t feel like getting killed when I go in lmao

[@forestpepper3621]

So "Geographer Cone Snail" farts truly deserve the title of "silent but deadly".

[@bbull71]

In the afterlife, War hero: i got shot 7x in the chest Burglar: shot in a firefight by the police Guy died by snail: 👀 👀 👀

[@gabrieldjatienza6971]

I remember a Hawaii Five Episode where a serial killer uses the venomous snail as his murder weapon, but Steve MacGarret has cornered the killer in the open sea, the killer uses the snail to kill himself, MacGarret watches grimly as the doomed killer sinks into the sea with his killer snail!

[@danielgagne485]

Paralyzing vomit....dam, I didn't see that coming.

[@joeybulford5266]

Oh my god. That may be one of the worst ways to die. Imagine being slowly stalked by that terrifying monster but there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

[@Hey-jw3dm]

wow. i never thought id meet an animal that uses vomit in their mechanism

[@ausie7of9]

For a "paralysed" fish it had a hell of a kick when engulfed

[@octapusxft]

I think that the fish was just asleep like they said in another similar video

[@swapnildhoke3969]

Should be the advert of Australian Tourism 😁😁

[@spaceace1006]

"S-Cargo!!!" What do you call a Shipping Company run by Snails?

[@trucktruckin2291]

Sadly, they are not alone. Bunch of slow retards everywhere now.

[@Hey-jw3dm]

shouldn't this be classified as horror😂

[@chugchug5657]

You literally have to be a Mad Max with a Falcon to live there😂

[@fatmanchew909]

Did we exile the deadliest animals along with the deadliest humans to Australia?

[@SonKunSama]

Ah yes, allow me to give an explanation for why all these Australian animals are so seemingly disproportionately poisonous/venomous, if you're interested of course. Since Australia was isolated from the rest of the world for such a long time, the animals living there got into an evolutionary arms-race when it came to predator-prey relation, and that includes the evolution of different types of toxins of course. Now these toxins from for example a very venomous spider may be deadly to us, but they are barely painful for a wombat or a koala. The other way around, animals that live in the rest of the world with mild toxins to us will be deadly for animals in Australia. Hope that clears things up.

[@fatmanchew909]

@@SonKunSama I was originally joking but your explanation makes sense. Now I'm even more worried. We though war was only a human problem of mass destruction but the animal kingdom are opposable thumbs away from WW3.

[@SonKunSama]

@@fatmanchew909 yeah, gotta watch out for that Nukalyptus tree!

[@BDCF100]

Australia? The video understates this deadly mollusc's range. It is native from the Red Sea down the east coast of Africa across the Indian Ocean and across the Pacific almost to the Hawaiian Islands.

[@osamabinladen824]

@@SonKunSama I know. But thanks for the explanation.

[@elizabethjohnson4612]

I had to wait to finish my food before watching when I saw the title, expecting to see a snail's vomit. But I only saw a motionless, frightened fish 😂😂😂

[@leisuredino4416]

The snail:No body, no crime

[@dr.livesey6120]

With the voice and music at the start I thought he'd try selling me champagne.

[@paulliu1398]

When a kid say I wanna be a fish Me: Shows this video.

[@maydiaz697]

This is an underwater Genjutsu.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Exactly why I don’t go in the ocean anymore At least you can usually see the snakes and spiders 😳

[@twolak1972]

Nature is beyond amazing. WOW

[@brissadlr9939]

I definitely hope I never come across a horrible sea snail.

[@letmesleepinpeace7052]

The snail when it eats: :O

[@thatsMrSmileytoyou]

Yeah, I'm never going in the water when visiting Australia

[@romelee2242]

I swear this thing is gonna show up as a creature in Made In Abyss

[@kenk5269]

Australia, worlds largest prison island. There is no escaping.

[@hassankanaan4342]

Is that in Australia

[@born_to_die1041]

I will never go beach again

[@Mann0330]

yup...

[@barryt2666]

I think the worst of it is that most of the liveable parts of Australia are tropical in nature and temperature. You'll always be tempted to wander around with minimal protective clothing, thus opening yourself up to risk of being attacked and bitten! Still would like traveling around their continent. Swimming even! The odds are always in your favor if you abide by the local rules.😊

[@zeram01]

Seeing this, I’m glad to have already evolved into a land moving creature🧜‍♂️->🕺