The mantis shrimp is one of the most fascinating and powerful creatures in the ocean, boasting biology that seems almost ...

If sea creatures were Marvel comic book characters, the peacock mantis shrimp would be Thor. These colorful crustaceans have a hammerlike claw that can smash prey with the acceleration of a 0.22 ...

If sea creatures were Marvel comic book characters, the peacock mantis shrimp would be Thor. These colorful crustaceans have a hammerlike claw that can smash prey with the acceleration of a 0.22 ...

These solitary, aggressive animals are famous for their ferocious punch—as fast as a bullet and strong enough to snap a crab’s claw. Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian ...

A fearsome predator underwater, mantis shrimp have eight pairs of legs. Three pairs are for walking, but five pairs have claws on the end of them for feeding. The mantis shrimp’s purple eyes are ...

The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known as dactyl clubs. But when it smashes the shells of its prey ...

"The strike velocity of a mantis shrimp’s large, powerful claws is one of the fastest movements of any animal on earth," the Chesapeake Bay Program's profile on the species says. "It takes a ...

researchers report that juvenile snapping shrimp have broken that record, accelerating their claws shut about 20 times faster than their parents. They even beat the famous punch of the mantis ...

that training might ultimately be crucial to the claw’s function, says Kate Feller, a visual ecologist at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., who studies similarly ultrafast mantis shrimp and ...

and even other famously zippy underwater species such as mantis shrimp, which use their ultra-fast claws to punch enemies or bash up prey. Bigclaw snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis), which ...