Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There are more than 400 ...

The mantis shrimp is a fearsome marine predator. Discover more about them and one clam's unlikely defense against their ...

The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known as dactyl clubs. But when it smashes the shells of its prey, these fists ...

People and other animals perceive a palette of colors by blending and comparing signals from a few types of color-sensing eye cells called photoreceptors. In contrast, the mantis shrimp sees each ...

These unusual shrimp also make a distinctive "rumbling growl sound." Creature that can 'punch [its] way through aquarium glass' found inhabiting new waters: 'It's not something to celebrate' first ...

The types of mantis shrimps we investigated in ... Were you surprised by the level of achromaticity in the mantis shrimp's quarter-waveplate? We were completely surprised. In the lab I'm very ...

Mantis shrimp are truly spectacular predators of the marine world. Like a praying mantis, the mantis shrimp use a specialised pair of forelimbs to capture prey and are divided into the ‘spearers ...

Powerful punch Peacock mantis shrimp use a complex system of biological latches and springs in their dactyl clubs to unleash a punch at a speed of 75 feet per second (23 meters per second ...

When a mantis shrimp uses shock waves to strike and kill its prey, how does it prevent those shock waves from damaging its own tissues? Researchers at Northwestern University in the US have answered ...