The mantis shrimp, a tropical sea species, is gaining popularity after the Oatmeal published a web comic extolling the ocean dweller. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES. NEWSLETTER SIGNUP.

Mantis Shrimp Eyes Are Totally Overrated. By Ed Yong. ... popularised by a delightful but sadly wrong Oatmeal cartoon. It’s true that some species have 16 cone photoreceptors compared to our 3.

With their impressive eyes, Herculean strength, and punches with the force of a 22-caliber bullet, mantis shrimp are some of the ocean’s most impressive tiny wonders. These sucker punches are ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Exploding Kittens, the hit tabletop game creator, announced the launch of its new game, Mantis.Derived from the popular comic Why the Mantis Shrimp is my new ...

The mantis shrimp has twelve different photoreceptors.. Eight of these cover the parts of the spectrum that we can see, while four cover the ultraviolet region. That seems like a ludicrous excess.

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 ...