Walkers on coast of Isle of Wight find “elusive” predator, a mantis shrimp, “tangled in seagrass.” A video shows the aquatic animal swim.

But mantis shrimp (aka stomatopods) have the most complex eyes of all: they can have between 12 and 16 individual photoreceptors and can thus detect visible, UV, and polarized light.

They shed light on the biology of mantis shrimp, whose club-like appendages accelerate faster than a bullet out of a gun. Just one strike can knock the arm off a crab or break through a snail shell.

The little robot mechanism's performance wasn't quite mantis shrimp-level, but the appendage still reached 26 meters per second in air, the equivalent of a car going from 0 to 58 mph in just four ...

Mantis shrimp are armed with a one hammer-like dactyl club on each side of its body, which act like a pair of fists and can punch with the force of a .22 caliber bullet.

Peacock mantis shrimp are one of the larger mantis shrimp species, measuring 1.2 to 7.1 inches in length. Peacock mantis shrimp get their name from their kaleidoscope shell, like a peacock’s ...

Its moniker comes from the mantis shrimp, a crustacean known for its powerful punches and even more incredible eyesight. Like that undersea animal, the MANTIS spacecraft will be able to observe the ...

Known as "thumb splitters," mantis shrimp are dangerous and can injure a human or pet. There'll be a bevvy of them washing ashore on Delaware beaches.

Walkers on coast of Isle of Wight find “elusive” predator, a mantis shrimp, “tangled in seagrass.” A video shows the aquatic animal swim.

Walkers on coast of Isle of Wight find “elusive” predator, a mantis shrimp, “tangled in seagrass.” A video shows the aquatic animal swim.