Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian and Pacific oceans. To build a home, they use their raptor-like ...

Learn more about the mantis shrimp that has between 12 and 16 photoreceptors, compared to humans that only have three.

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 ...

Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 meters per second – a king-hit delivering a jaw-dropping 1,500 ...

The mantis shrimp sees each color separately with one of a dozen kinds of specialized cells, a system that may help the animal quickly see colors without a lot of brainpower.

Baby mantis shrimp are about the size of a grain of rice, and they punch at speeds five to ten times faster than the overall punching speeds of other comparably-sized species.

Mantis shrimp are equally colorful predators on coral reefs and pack an incredibly powerful punch. Banner image: A peacock mantis shrimp and a disco clam (not to scale). Credits: Lindsey Dougherty ...

In mantis shrimp, however, the saddle-shaped structure can also function as a spring, the UC Berkeley researchers found. It stores energy until a quick release propels the shrimp's club in a shell ...

Mantis shrimp are famous for their incredible punching and spearing abilities. Adult mantis shrimp can accelerate their folded appendages so fast that they create an air pocket when they punch.

In mantis shrimp, two small structures embedded in the tendons of the muscles called sclerites act as the appendage’s latch.

During his prime, a punch from Mike Tyson would have felt the same as if you were hit 13 times by .22 caliber bullets while wearing a bulletproof vest. Remarkably, the peacock mantis shrimp packs ...