Mantis shrimps punch at bullet speed. How can they take it?
The dactyl clubs act as a phononic shield, filtering high-frequency stress waves and preventing harmful vibrations from ...
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Mantis shrimp clubs filter sound to mitigate damage
Espinosa and colleagues used two advanced techniques to examine the mantis shrimp's armor in fine detail. First, they applied transient grating spectroscopy, a laser-based method that analyzes how ...