{"id":18030,"date":"2025-06-27T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18030\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:37:21","slug":"shell-of-deadly-snail-that-can-cause-paralysis-picked-up-by-beachgoer-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18030\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell of deadly snail that can cause paralysis picked up by beachgoer in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A woman visiting a local beach<\/a> was walking along the tide admiring shells when she picked up one that could have had deadly repercussions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sharing her story on TikTok, the woman shows herself finding a spotted, cone-shaped shell and picking it up. She was in Okinawa, Japan, when this happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She doesn\u2019t know it yet, but she\u2019s about to pick up the world\u2019s deadliest shell that leads to full paralysis in minutes,” the text on the video says.<\/p>\n

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The woman picked up a cone snail shell<\/a> with coils spotted in brown and white.<\/p>\n

Cone snails are one of the most venomous animals<\/a> on Earth, with approximately 600-700 species of slugs in existence, according to the Ocean Conservancy (OC).<\/p>\n

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A viral TikTok shows a woman’s panic after she picked up a beautiful shell like the one shown above \u2014 but the shell could have housed a highly venomous cone snail inside it.\u00a0 (iStock)<\/p>\n

Most venom in the snails will “cause tingling or numbness at the injection site, then spread to the impacted limb and eventually the entire body,” according to OC.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up video that garnered millions of likes, the woman shared that she did research on the shell and its usual inhabitant, finding out even “worse” information about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“My brain kept convincing me that I had been stung and just didn\u2019t realize it. By the fourth day of panic, my husband<\/a> was sick of reassuring me I was indeed going to live,” she said.<\/p>\n

Cone snails are marine predators. They use venom to immobilize their prey by using their “harpoon-like teeth” to inject victims, according to the National Library of Medicine (NLM).<\/p>\n

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Cone snails, which typically live in shells like those shown above, are one of the most venomous animals on Earth, with hundreds of species of slugs in existence. (iStock)<\/p>\n

The video garnered nearly one million likes, with TikTokers weighing in on the incident.<\/p>\n

“This is why life should have an instruction manual,” said one woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A user commented, “Don\u2019t touch anything pretty.”<\/p>\n

“I wonder if my mother-in-law<\/a> would like a cone shell collection,” joked one TikToker.<\/p>\n

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One person commented about the sea-shore drama described in a viral TikTok, “Don\u2019t touch anything pretty.” (iStock)<\/p>\n

Another user said, “I grew up in Hawaii and they taught me this in fourth grade.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The person added, “But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s common knowledge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A woman visiting a local beach was walking along the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-18030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114753243978413702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}