Armed with a spring-loaded club and a devastating ‘double whammy’ strike, this shrimp is one of evolution’s strangest ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 ...

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In the seemingly endless fight against cancer, flowers, barks, snakes, scorpions and various toxic sea creatures are part of an ever-growing pharmacopoeia of medicines and tools. Now, research shows ...

The mantis shrimp, like the honey badger, is internet royalty. They’re the stuff of breathless blog posts and flamboyant memery, practically built for the Impact font. There aren’t many marine ...

A peacock mantis shrimp. The shrimp's bulging eyes see in a way totally different from other animals, more comparable to a satellite than anything else, scientists say. Wikimedia Commons/Silke Baron ...

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When you look at a mantis shrimp, you see a vivid lobster-like crustacean whose forearms can strike with the force of a .22-caliber bullet. But when a mantis shrimp looks at you, we have no idea what ...

Some of the most innovative and useful inventions have been inspired by nature. Take the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan, whose aerodynamic design is modeled after the kingfisher bird. Or Velcro, ...