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        "description": "<p>The underwater version of a tank, this cone snail boasts an armored shell and enough venom to kill a human. Nearby fish don't stand a chance.</p>", 
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        "title": "World's Weirdest: Killer Cone Snail", 
        "url": "http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/invertebrates-animals/other-invertebrates/weirdest-cone-snail/", 
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        "transcript": "<p>This siphon acts as a breathing tube...and a warning.</p><p>Emerging from the sediment is its owner, a six-inch-long toxic killer-the cone snail.</p><p>Snails are usually thought of slow, slimy and delicious in a garlic-butter sauce.</p><p>But with some 40,000 different species of snails, a few are bound to buck the system.</p><p>In the waters of Southeast Asia, this is the underwater version of a tank-with a hard spiral shell...flexible treads...and down in front-a cannon.</p><p>It has eyestalks on either side, but it hunts primarily by scent, using its siphon.</p><p>The target: a nearby fish.</p><p>The fish hides deeper under the rock rather than swimming away.</p><p>Bad idea. It still has room to move.</p><p>But inside this probing tube, called a proboscis, the cone snail has a long-range weapon-a harpoon.</p><p>Made of a modified tooth, the harpoon can be launched by a quick muscular contraction.</p><p>Fish-hunting snails are particularly dangerous, with venom strong enough to kill a human.</p><p>This harpoon is cocked and loaded. Target is within range.</p><p>The cone snail strikes.</p><p>The fish is paralyzed within seconds, reeled back in, and swallowed.</p><p>With a full belly, the cone snail returns under the sediment, its siphon peeking out as a reminder and a warning.</p>", 
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