“I personally love my milk snail, Gary,” says Gietl, who is 23 and lives in Willis, about fifty miles north of Houston. “A ...

Viral TikTok shows woman's panic in Japan after she handled the shell of one of the world's deadliest snails. Cone snails use harpoon-like teeth to inject venom that immobilizes their victims.

I first learned about Gary on April 28, 2017, during a Ted Talk by his overlord, the space explorer and car maker Elon Musk. “We have a pet snail named Gary,” Musk said.