Eccentric aliens like Rokuro, Mr. Mantis Shrimp, and Nessie steal the spotlight with their unique abilities and complex ...

However, one of the most fascinating attributes of the mantis shrimp is the ability to produce a sound akin to a gunshot when it attacks its prey ... visual systems in the animal kingdom. While humans ...

At the peak of their attack, the appendages of a mantis shrimp accelerate with 10,000 g-force ... With up to 16 types of photoreceptor cells, compared to humans’ three, they can detect a broad ...

Known for their powerful punch, mantis shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet. Yet, amazingly, these ...

Insights from probing the shock-absorbing layer within the crustacean’s club-like claw could inspire the design of tough new ...

A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

However, that’s not always the case. When creating Marvel Rivals, developer NetEase wanted a take on Mantis that was different from the version depicted by Pom Klementieff in the Guardians of ...