With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Associate Professor Emanuel Azizi and colleagues from Occidental College Los Angeles have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail Conus catus. Published online in Current Biology – Cell Press, the researchers identified the snail’s hydraulically propelled feeding structure as the quickest movement among mollusks by an order of magnitude.
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Source: Phys.org