The Venom Cure: Sea Snake Venom
Bryan Fry's goal is to collect, study, and catalog the chemical characteristics of venom from sea snakes.

Bryan Fry's goal is to collect, study, and catalog the chemical characteristics of venom from sea snakes.
A textile cone hunts other snails. Its proboscis contains a harpoon, loaded with a powerful venom called conotoxin. It paralyzes its prey so it can be sucked from its shell and devoured.
High concentrations of mercury, a neurotoxin that can damage developing brains in fetuses, are found in some kinds of popular fish such as albacore tuna.
With its fascinating coloring and delicate curling arms, the blue-ringed octopus may be a beautiful creature, but this small cephalopod is also deadly.
One of the most promising new venom-derived drugs actually comes from a very modest-looking sea snail.
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