The peacock mantis shrimp is the Mike Tyson of the shrimp world, capable of delivering a mean punch. The impact pressure from these little guys rivals that of a small-caliber bullet. Despite their ...

The mantis shrimp is famous in the animal kingdom for its fast, powerful hammer strike, on par with the force generated by a .22 caliber bullet. One might conclude that those strikes would be even ...

Mantis shrimp are known for their hammer-like claws, their photoreceptor-rich eyes, and their colorful skin – which, as crustaceans, they must occasionally shed so they can grow. Here's one colorful ...

Mantis shrimp molt and replace their claws every few months, but they still strike tens of thousands of times with each iteration of these clublike appendages. Kisailus and his colleagues found that ...

The colorful mantis shrimp is known for powerful claws that can stun prey with 200 lbs. (91 kilograms) of force. Now, new research finds that these aggressive crustaceans are weird in another way: ...

The mantis shrimp is one of evolution's greatest hits—literally. This pugnacious crustacean (not technically a shrimp) cocks back its hammer-limbs and smashes prey with such ferocity, a shockwave ...