Size matters to the small-but-mighty mantis shrimp, which show a marked preference for burrows in coral rubble with volumes that closely match their own body size or are just a bit larger—in other ...

Shrimp-like creature reeled up from a Florida dock is most likely some kind of mantis shrimp, experts say. Photos of the critter have gone viral. A Florida angler has reeled in a mysterious creature ...

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Few sea creatures are as straight up ornery as the mantis shrimp, a kind of lobster-looking crustacean that is not in fact a shrimp, but a close relative called a stomatopod. It's equipped with two ...

Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped ...

Researchers traced neural connections in a newly discovered brain region of mantis shrimp, gaining new insights into how the fierce predators are able to make sense of a breathtaking amount of visual ...

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A new study provides insight into how the small brains of mantis shrimp - fierce predators with keen vision that are among the fastest strikers in the animal kingdom - are able to make sense of a ...