The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most ...

Watch as a red crab faces off against a giant mantis shrimp in a high-stakes underwater clash. Claws, armor, and ...

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 ...

Two titans of the tide go claw-to-claw in a rematch you don’t want to miss! It’s the ultimate crustacean clash as the hermit crab and mantis shrimp face off in a battle for dominance beneath the waves ...

Mantis shrimp are truly spectacular predators of the marine world. Like a praying mantis, the mantis shrimp use a specialised pair of forelimbs to capture prey and are divided into the ‘spearers ...

The eyes of the mantis shrimp have more types of photoreceptors, or color-detecting cells, than any animal on the planet. But the bottom-dwelling sea creatures are surprisingly bad at ...

The types of mantis shrimps we investigated in our study are found in and around coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific area, but there are other species that inhabit temperate waters and the deep ocean ...

Watch a mantis shrimp punch its prey into submission using its specialized hammers. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, personal space is essential to prevent ...