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Why Are Killer Cone Snails So Much Deadlier Than Normal Snails?
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Radical
Nooo they got them
😊😊
NO thanks to these crappy predatorily monetised mobile games.
You dont blame the fresh water snail for the parasite that use them
Remember this next time you think Gary was just a harmless pet
🤣🤣🤣
SpongeBob has glass shards in his flesh.
@RubyCarrots3232 No, the glass shards ARE his flesh.
Well technically silicone
@Myripod Why the fuck do they refer to it as glass when the only similarity is it being silica-based?
Hate it when stuff like that happens.
Land snail : ouch owie i touch some salt
Sea snail : i have become one with the salts
I was born in the salt, moulded by it.
Cornball😮💨🥀
@Mangaplaysgl nga your pfp is johann liebert, you're the biggest cornball I've ever seen
@rando@randompurpleteddybearcoming from the guy whose pfp is a
mis -coloured teddy bear
@Mangaplaysglfight fight fight!
Something i like about this channel is it's dramatic but doesn't exaggerate. It talks about freaky animals and stuff but doesn’t make them out as evil killers, just products of nature doing what they do.
The channel also has moved from ChatGPT to some better AI to make its thumbnails
And I give it a subscribe 😊
Thank goodness were land animals.... 😅
i like our helpless little decomposer snails tbh
Except Australia. The only continent with literal land sea snakes.
Australia is just a different place
@Jguyhim213you can say it's built different
*we're
everybody in the ocean gangsta till gary hit em wit the meow meow meow
cuz it’s the bottom, yeah
Gary hit em with the!
So, the Fish is paralyzed before it even has time to blink.☠️
fish dont blink my guuy.
@kevinnguyen9138
Not quick enough, my guy.😉👍🏻
@nicksweeney5176 fish still don't blink, they also sleep with there eyes open
@teologiasemdemagogia6239
Oh, sure. Right. So YOU say. A special secret, that only YOU know? What are you; and Expert Fish Scientist?
#CitationNeeded
It's much like drinking absinthe
8:25 Yeah, I learned about this disease as a kid in Nigeria🤢 Even though we eat giant snails, we all know to avoid freshwater snails and even the ones we eat are cleaned thoroughly in citric acid for a while and we broil them hard to avoid parasites.
Greetings from a fellow snail eater XD Yeah they're full of parasites but they're also delish when properly cooked. You know what I mean
@mcmh9523heck yeah, friend! I get you😂
@m@mcmh9523 as a person who has ate snails before, I can confirm this
Gross
@Chr-q1syes, much of the animals we humans eat for food are groos before you cook them😅 I mean, I have friends who live in Newfoundland, Canada. They go cod fishing and tell me how sometimes, their catches have parasites in them and they have to either deep freeze them or bake them in high heat to make the fish clean to eat. Same thing with the land snails we eat here in Nigeria. Just be careful and prepare the food well
"Compared to leafs, fish are overpowered" is a proverb i shall remember
Some really extreme snails out there, the scaly foot snail has iron scales and lives next to volcanic vents.
Suddenly really appreciating the antibacterial qualities of open air
One species of predatory sea snails played an important role in global trade during ancient times, as it was where the very sought after Tyrian purple dye came from. The reason purple was a highly sought after dye that became a symbol of royalty and wealth in ancient times was because it could only be extracted from a species of sea-snails found in certain parts of the Mediterranean Sea. Their secretions, when exposed to light and air, turned into a vibrant, colorfast purple. Something which the Phoneticians took notice of and they started hunting these snails for their ability to make purple dye.
The purple color was the color of royalty for that reason. It takes so many snails to cook up a batch of dye. Ironically it's also the first color to be synthesized so it was the first one to drop in value.
@minhducnguyen9276😂
I once briefly picked up a cone snail once thinking it was an empty shell, I had no idea that it was that dangerous 😳
well it'll be empty if you brought it home and put it on table with no water ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Yeah I'm never touching water ever again💀
wuss
@BaddaBingGuy dude have you seen those freaky ahh creatures down there
@LizarDrawz they're just little guys
Just avoid the ocean and have fun in waterpark.
I dont like the ocean as a playground... jelly stings, fish looking like rock... both with venom... sea urchins... same problem... also I hate deep water 😅if I cant see the bottom or if its deeper than 2-3m... and NOBODY gets me peaceful or by will in ocean water with hundrets or thousands meters of nothing and doom below me😢😅
Not all Cone Snails use the "harpoon" either, they creep up and gently waft the toxin into the current of water around the prey, stunning it and then expanding the proboscis around the fish and pulling it into the stomach.
One thing you could mention about land snails are the parasites that can kill you if you swallow them raw, great vid
Couple years ago in hawaii i saw a cone snail on the bottom so i went to grab it (not knowing about cone snails at that point) and a wave pushed me over and i never saw it again. I looked it up, because it was the coolest shell i had ever seen, and realized that potentially, God had just intervened to save my life
Praise the Lord you weren’t stung. And thank you for giving glory to God and not “fate/Mother Nature/ the stars, etc”.
you went to grab a random creature you know nothing about?
"God helped me today so that I can die 60 years later"
@BananaGrace it was science and nature. why are you on a science and nature channel if you're gonna just plug your ears?
nah , being lauzy and awkward swimmer saved you
That's why Garry is immortal.
When i was stationed at Pearl Harbor, we were doing volunteer yard work, and dug into a bush, pondy type area, boom, like 5 Cone Snails. Luckily i knew what they were because of my mom
_Can kill full grown adults!_
_AND CAN EVEN SURVIVE A FEW GRAINS OF SALT_
Bud I think we got the orders of magnitude inverted here 😂
10:22 "the larvae need to swim into the skin of a human" 😮
Watching this while making slug clay sculptures
1:26 I never quite understood how some substances can be fatal in such tiny amounts, but it actually makes me wonder if a "perfect poison" could exist, that would kill you with a single molecule.
Mercury is pretty bad for you.
I gotchu bro.
Dimythel Mercury.
Additional: Look up the case of Karen Wetterhahn
Polonium. If it gets in your lungs, you die of cancer. A single particle is Radioactive enough.
Radiation can erase your DNA and that's smaller than a molecule.
Clostridium Botulinum toxin. LD50 for this toxin is 1 nanogram per kilogram. (0.000000001g/Kg)
Land snails are low key cute, as far as mollusks go. Probably the cutest mollusk.
I like octopuses more
@BanishedKuroe Most mollusk are pretty cute, unless it's a humboldt squid. Those guys are ferocious.
Cuttlefish
sea hares fit the description more. their faces are so silly (and some species get as big as your forearm)
The orange cute blob some scientists found in the darkness:
VENOM NOT POISON
Just when I thought the ocean couldn’t get any scarier 😊
03:19 who else see the duck face.
The one from Chicken Little?
Oh yeah. Just lower left of center in the rectangle with the snail. Now I can't not see it.
6:20
@mist3rmaniac it looks cute. Little buddy riding doom 😂
I remember finding out about this snail when I was like 9 and was super scared to go to the sea lol
0:33 they literally live in liquid salt
5:44 it states it here
Lmao I was thinking this as I read your comment
Salt solution, or salty water.
Liquid salt implies a ton of salt in their liquid form, which are melted salt, that is 800°C.
No actually just salty water. Liquid salt is a ton of salt at its melting point (800⁰C)
@vanzeralltheway8638 ty for more information. I like liquids, and it's good to know that salt melts at 800⁰C
I miss 13 minutes, 19 seconds ago, when I still lived in ignorance bliss.
One is vegan one is a water grim reaper.
I will hit the like button slowly, like a snail 🐌
The conch hunts and eats crown of thorns which devastate coral reefs. The collection of conch shells is outlawed in many places all over the world for this reason.
Stories like this remind me why I love myths and legends
Imagine what deep sea humans look like..
Atlantium
Good point
ground beef
given what happened to the Titan I'm gonna say tiny little pieces
@bennie_bee gone reduced to atoms
“The scariest thing they can do is leave a trail of slime”
You forgot the part where they carry diseases, but if you don’t eat them and wash your produce thoroughly you should be fine.
Also parasites
@sorachinoike2987 Yes, that's what "they carry disease" mean, dum dum
I have a cone snail shell While traveling with family on vacation near the ocean, we went to swim, and afterwards I collected shells, including a cone snail which seemed heavy. I didn't know then. I don't think locals there are aware either
😂Great video, friend. I remember, as a kid in Nigeria, watching the National Geographic channel talk about these snails. It was so weird finding out about these creatures cause we eat giant African snails here😅 I never imagined snails being this dangerous!
Imagine this as the immortal snail 😩✌️🥀💔
Land snails carry rat-lungworm disease, which is an incurable disease in which worms devour your lungs while you're alive. It is fatal.
Only if you eat it gng
deserved for eating snails 🪦
@Zuzulemon9000 it also occurs in lettuce
@someonexdxd it also occurs in lettuce
Just some more shit did not need to know
Because they're hiruko
my show is on!!!!
thank you for watching ;)
And there goes my trip to Asia.
Schisto is so common in some places that pee turning red due to the infection is a traditional sign of puberty and is considered a male equivalent to menstruation
**sigh**
**unzips**
**draws gun out**
Eyes can be non-essentials.
Did anyone say Escargot?
I clicked to learn more about cone snails and left never being able to enter fresh water without the thought of a super deadly snail disease
I read the title as ‘antique snails’. This lead me to wonder whether snails in antiquity were thought to be deadlier, or there was some sort of super deadly museum piece.
I feel like salt to snails is the same as stairs to old people
You can't pour stairs on old people though
@UnPhAzD91dont tell me what i cant do
@Mad_Possum I know right? Pouring stairs on old people is what makes life worth living.
@UnPhAzD91ladders would like a word.
@MoentjeCons instructions unclear I'm now convicted of battery with a ladder.
These snails are terrifying. Thanks for the knowledge you shared I enjoyed it very much
Okay, so I just gave up swimming altogether.
I have never thought about this question, but when I read the title it seemed legit...
what a wild world lol
17 min is unbelievable ❤ thank-you for the vid
Crazy how water can turn even the most docile friendly animals into literal nightmare fuel
Awesome vid. I love the expansive coverage of snails as a whole that gives perspective on them as a whole
Thank you, i'll never touch water ever again.
The amount of fresh water snails I've eaten is haunting me now...
New fear unlocked
Dude i swear everything in water is ten times stronger and dangerous than their land counterpart
I feel that if they're is a snail grim reaper, it's the cone snail and it's definitely visiting my house.
Dude the freshwater snail just straight up has a miasma cloud aura, I thought that only existed in anime 😭😭😭
Thanks for the nightmares, all I can think about is the snail parasites now...
Dude who just got his $10 million: 😮
I feel.like to write a story about a snail named - "Hong Tu" who is killed by his clan but in his dying breath he takes his last son and puts him underwater, where his son adapts and kills and comes back to kill the whole clan.
"Come on! Get in the lake with us! What could go wrong?"
There's also a parasite known as rat lungworm that infects snails and slugs on land
Great white sharks recently came back to the coasts where I live, and I didn't stop going into the ocean all summer, so I think I'll continue to take my chances.
6:09 "... but aquatic snails have spent millions of years optimizing their build."
TierZoo references are TIGHT!
The cone snail has a really nasty radula.
I Never thought i would here of a snail immune to its kryponite
Number one reason why to not go deep in the ocean and touch bottom, the snail venom will literally vaporize you where you stand.
Land snails are parasite vectors as well.
It's funny how i watch Parz shorts on these animals and RUclips decades i need the full explanation and I'm not complaining
"Compared to leaves, fish are over-powered" * giggles* And great vid thanks 😊
Never thought I would reach this point where I watched a ibfo video about snails. 😂
You didn't mention that the cone snail also uses insulin expelled to stun small creatures near it and even tailors the composition of the insulin for the target creature. doctors are studying it's ability to do this for research into treating diabetes.
No more lakes for me.
Love the video, hate the commercial. Especially because you just can't escape it, one second you are listing to info about something interesting, the next you're in the middle of a commercial.
"Dissolve through your skin" yeh I'm done with going anywhere near water
soooo spongebob might actually be harboring a serial killer..
When slat was brought up, I just kept thinking about the ash baby lol😂
Wow I remember holding this sea snails out of curiosity like wtf iam lucky to be alive
Scariest part about cone snails is that The Gympie Gympie plant uses similar neurotoxins found in their bodies, and they mix that in with the same toxins as spider venom (which triggers severe inflammation and the burning sensation the plant is known for)
I didn’t knew Gary has venom 😮
I wouldnt want to be the peanut that walked into the bar either. It was a-salted
Super interesting vid, this Fakts are so intresting
"I was born in the salt"
Meanwhile me who doesn’t like ocean, sea, rivers and lakes so im chillin
Killer cone snails vs fiber glass
*in bane voice*: I dont fear the salt. I was born in it
I love the land snails, they are very cute! ^_^
"If water is all around, why do I pay for it" ahh moment
Cone snails are known as cigarette snails because it’s said that the only thing you have time to do is have one last puff of a cigarette before you drop dead
Aquatic snails are a great example. Many of them evolved extreme defenses not because they’re “weaker, but beccause water environments expose them to constant predators, parasites, and low-oxygen conditions. some species even developed thicker shells, toxic mucus, or iỉon -reinforced armor just to surviv
My experience: start scuba diving, get licence, find out that the ocean is about as dangerous as Australia, never touch open water again
I'm willing to bet it's because one has the word killer in its name
The blue ringed octopus is the most venomous ocean creature
This is why water world was fiction
thanks now i have aquaphobia
Everything in the sea is extremely resistant to poisons. So if something is venomous in the ocean, it's usually harsh AF.
Another day. Another reason found to thank God