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Cone snails use sexual enticements to lure prey out of hiding

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Some cone snails use a previously undetected set of small molecules that mimic the effects of worm pheromones to drive marine worms into a sexual frenzy, making it easier to lure them out of their hiding places so the snails can gobble them up.

Source: ScienceDaily.com