A 6-inch peacock mantis shrimp packs a 50 mph punch, and it's for that reason biologist Ilse Daly, at the University of Bristol in Britain, wears thick gardening gloves when handling the little ...

The mantis shrimp, which typically grows no more than 6 inches in length, is an aggressive, burrowing crustacean that looks a bit like a crayfish dipped in neon spray paint.

And what a strike that is: When unleashed on a potential meal like a crab or a snail, the peacock mantis shrimp’s 2/10-inch-wide fist accelerates faster than a .22-caliber bullet, reaching ...

The mantis shrimp is famous in the animal kingdom for its fast, powerful hammer strike, on par with the force generated by a .22 caliber bullet. One might conclude that those strikes would be even ...

The mantis shrimp has twelve different photoreceptors.. Eight of these cover the parts of the spectrum that we can see, while four cover the ultraviolet region. That seems like a ludicrous excess.

Mantis shrimps view the underwater world in a new light: Sea creatures use 'biological sunscreen' to see UV colours . Creatures' eyes contain filters to shield themselves against UV rays; They ...

Mantis shrimp grew bigger and seabed organisms such as shellfish became more numerous in part of Hong Kong’s waters just two years after ocean trawling was banned, a university study has found.