It lives primarily in empty cone shells, mainly those of snails or tritons.

The shell has a very high spire compared to most cone shells, and thus it is exceptionally long relative to its width.

Given that they are capable of "stinging" humans, live cone shells should be handled with great care or preferably not at all.

Stings from a few species of large tropical cone shells can also kill.

Oliver kept this cone shell with him all the years of his growing up.

"Did you know that the old Greeks shipped wine in cone shells?"

They did it because cone shells are so much bigger on the inside than on the outside.

They would put a half a dozen cone shells into an amphora of wine to temper them for it.

Then they would take them out and pour one, two, or three amphoras of wine into each cone shell.

They put their two heads together, Oliver and the cone shell.