Cone snail's strike is one of the quickest in the animal kingdom

ScienceDaily
Aug 30, 2019, 9:21 am100 pts
With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, biologists have shed light on the hunting mechanism of the cone snail Conus catus. 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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