The mantis shrimp delivers punches at over 50 mph, faster than a bullet’s acceleration, creating shockwaves strong enough to ...

Witness an epic clash as a powerful giant mantis shrimp faces off against a giant shrimp in an underwater showdown. See the ...

The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most ...

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 world is full of colour – but there’s more than what meets the human eye. There is an untold number of “impossible ...

The mantis shrimp may be small, but it packs a powerful punch—literally. Now, scientists finally have a better understanding of how these tiny crustaceans protect themselves from their own power.

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 ...

Mantis shrimp have a reputation as fighters and it's well deserved. But they also have a romantic side to them, which they show off with a well-choreographed mating dance. A Final Takeoff The ...

The discovery that the eye of a particular mantis shrimp has an achromatic quarter-waveplate that is superior to modern-day devices could be a source of inspiration to those designing optical ...

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The mantis shrimp is king of the colour wheel here, detecting ten times more colour than a human. It is believed to see more colours than any other animal on the planet. The three colours they ...