Bullet-fast mantis shrimp punches caught by super-speed cameras Ocean oddity mantis shrimp show up ready to fight with a built-in shield. Laura Baisas May 13, 2024 1:11 PM EDT ...

The mantis shrimp has an incredible 12 photoreceptors in its eyes – something we used to thing meant it could see many more colours than we, with our 3 receptors, could detect. New research has ...

And the mantis shrimp, amazingly, has the best color vision in the animal kingdom. While humans see color using three kinds of receptors (red, green, and blue), the mantis shrimp has as many as ...

Analyzing movement, energy exchange and impact, Green found that the defending mantis shrimp was able to shock-absorb and diffuse around 90% of the attacking club's force. Key to this was the ...

Mutual assessment during ritualized fighting in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018; 285 (1871): 20172542 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2542 ...

Green and Harrison thought a similar quadratic resource value assessment might also apply to mantis shrimp—namely, that mantis shrimp would place a higher value on burrows with an ideal volume ...