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The mantis shrimp is neither a mantis nor a shrimp, but it does wield perhaps the most stunning strike in the animal kingdom. Sitting below its face are two hammers, which the crustacean cocks back ...

Imagine for a second that you’re a crab, and a fellow crustacean called a mantis shrimp has decided to make you its lunch. The truth is, it’s not worth struggling. The mantis shrimp uses muscles to ...

The stomatopods (Odontodactylus scyllarus) are an ancient group of marine tropical and subtropical crustaceans that are well known for their complex visual systems, solitary nature, and aggressive ...

The mantis shrimp is pretty unassuming looking. It's brightly colored, has wacky googly eyes, and is pretty small, about 20 centimeters long. But underwater, the mantis shrimp packs a serious punch.

The fearsome mantis shrimp has many fascinating attributes, most notably its powerful hammer-like rounded claws — technically known as “raptorial appendages” — that it uses to crack open the hard ...

This is a video of Steven Herrera, an undergraduate student in Kisailus Lab and co-author, discussing his research with the Mantis Shrimp. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, ...