Mantis shrimp are one of the coolest animals to ever exist. They have a pair of front limbs that can punch through aquarium glass, and they have some of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom.

Among the shrimp species that surround South Carolina’s coast, mantis shrimp stand out as most notable of them all. Not even technically a shrimp, mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are distant relatives ...

You won’t be calling a guy a shrimp when he’s wearing super strong mantis armor. Using electron microscopes, engineers have been studying how the mantis shrimp’s strong hammer-like claws work at the ...

The mantis shrimp is a fascinating creature that has the ability to punch its prey into submission with a club that accelerates underwater at around 10,400 g (102,000 m/s 2). By studying the secrets ...

Is it correct to say there are "colors that we don't have names for", as the butterfly square puts it, or is that just hyperbole? Or are they just ranges of known 'colors', just unseen (and thus ...

You might expect mantis shrimp, with their rounded claws capable of delivering shockwave-producing blows, to fight each other in short and gory bouts of dominance. But researchers in Biology Letters ...

Discover the extraordinary vision of mantis shrimp, whose eyes boast 16 photoreceptors, ultraviolet and polarized light detection, and independent movement. Learn seven fascinating reasons why their ...

Long-time New Atlas readers will surely be familiar with the mantis shrimp, the formidable marine crustaceans with powerful spear- or club-like forelimbs used to overwhelm their prey. But their limbs ...

When you look at a mantis shrimp, you see a vivid lobster-like crustacean whose forearms can strike with the force of a .22-caliber bullet. But when a mantis shrimp looks at you, we have no idea what ...