This giant spearing mantis shrimp just moved into its brand-new saltwater home and it’s already claiming territory! From tank ...

After crunching the numbers, Green found that incorporating this telson coil behavior enables mantis shrimp to dissipate more energy than their armor can absorb based on its material properties alone, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They took pairs of mantis shrimp of a certain species, Neogonodactylus bredini, and gave one of each pair a burrow. Then they sent the other to the area to see if they would fight over the burrow.

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 ...

Indeed, Green plans to continue studying mantis shrimp armor and combat. There are over 400 species worldwide, with incredible variation in form between their tail plates.