Instructional Video5:19
SciShow

How a Carnivorous Snail Is Advancing Medicine

12th - Higher Ed
Cone snails are venomous marine snails who use their venom in creative ways to take down their prey. And scientists have realized that certain chemicals in these venoms could actually be pretty useful for medicine.
Instructional Video3:55
Australian Children's Television Foundation

Studying the World's Most Venomous Snail

9th - 12th
Season 3, Cone Snail part 4

Watch how the cone snail attacks its prey, using its highly venomous harpoon. Learn how to calculate the speed of the dart, by analyzing a series of pict

ures.

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Instructional Video9:19
Australian Children's Television Foundation

Diving for Cone Snails

9th - 12th
Season 3, Cone Snail part 1

Kamil sends Kayne on a mission to find a deadly cone snail and measure the speed of its dart. Before he can do a night dive to find a snail though, Kayne needs to complete a few underwater safety...
Instructional Video3:44
NASA

NASA | Developing a Comet Harpoon for Sample Return

3rd - 11th
The Comet Nucleus Sample Return mission will collect subsurface samples from a comet and return them to Earth. Comets and asteroids are leftover remnants from the early solar system and by studying samples from these objects, we can...