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It may not be the legendary matchup, Squid versus Octopus, but imagine this fight.

Sea-dwelling cone snail versus tiny fish.

Who wins?

Well, true.

The fish can dart away.

But the snail has chemical weapons.

So they use a whole cocktail of compounds, and most of them are neurotoxins. And they just

completely wipe out the prey's physiology, right? So the prey cannot respond anymore.

Helen Safavi, a biologist at the University of Utah. She and her colleagues discovered

that the cone snail's venom

contains not only neurotoxins, but insulin too,

which the snails prey take in through their gills.

And that insulin overdose causes the fish's blood sugar to plummet,

depriving its brain of energy and inducing a coma.

And that's what happens when you give people an insulin overdose. You can cause

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