Given the spread of over 30 species of cone snails across the Hawaiian islands ... your Hawaiian holiday are those that have dangerous bites. Hawaii's Department of Health warns particularly ...

Known as Achatinella fuscobasis, the snail species had dwindled to only 11 individuals in the wild by 1991, according to officials with the Department of Land and Natural Resources in Hawaii.

And the snails hold another notable distinction—they are the country’s first-ever state gastropods. This past April, Hawaii enacted a law to designate nine species of kāhuli—the Hawaiian ...