Mantis shrimp have remarkable colour vision. They have as many as 16 types ... mantis shrimp can perceive a range from deep ultraviolet (300nm) to far-red (720nm) and polarised light.

Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There are more than 400 ...

But, for some reason, the mantis shrimp has 12 distinct photoreceptor types. Each photoreceptor is sensitive to a different wavelength of light, ranging from deep ultraviolet colors to red.

With exceptionally keen vision and the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, mantis shrimp are formidable predators of coral reefs around the world. This visual may only be used in conjunction ...