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 It may not the lengdary match-up .. versus¹ octopus². But imagine this fight: sea dwelling³ cone⁴ snail⁵ versus tine fish. Who wins? well, true, the fish can .. away but the snail have chemical weapons. So they use ..cocktail⁶ of compounds and most of them are neural⁷ toxins⁸ and they just completed wipe out the preys¹⁰ the physiology¹¹ right so the preys cannot respond any more. Helen .. the biologist of the University of Utah, she and her colleagues discovered the cone snail's venom¹² contains not only neural toxins but insulins too which the snail's prey⁹ taken to their gills and that insulin overdose causes the fishes blood suger to plummet¹³, deprive brain's of engery and inducing a coma¹⁴.  And that is what happen when you give people the instant overdose. It can cause a coma and then death, depending on the amount of the insulin. They reported the finding in the jounral Proceding of the National Academy of Scienses. If all sound like the some ... munder mystery, well, it is. The paper actually cites the clause ...trail in the 1980s. .. injected wife with insulin and as a consequence of that, she went to insulin shock and end up in a .. coma. That was the prosecusion theory. But proving it to a jury would be a struggle. ..was ultimatly found not guilty. But in the evolutionary¹⁵ struggle between snail and fish, it is now clear who has done it and how.