Watch as a red crab faces off against a giant mantis shrimp in a high-stakes underwater clash. Claws, armor, and ...

New research finds that the aggressive mantis shrimp is weird in a strange way: They see color like no other animal on the planet.

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.

It's tempting to think that with 12 color receptors, mantis shrimp see a rainbow humans can't even conceive. But Marshall and his colleagues found the opposite.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation have funded research into the peacock mantis shrimp, a 4- to 6-inch-long rainbow-colored shrimp that lives in ...

The mantis shrimp didn't immediately deploy their powerful weapons to knock each other into the next world. Instead, they went through several phases of communicating to demonstrate how fit they ...

In this video, we explore the fascinating world of keeping a giant mantis shrimp in a saltwater aquarium. Known for their ...

The peacock mantis shrimp, or stomatopod, is a 4- to 6-inch-long rainbow-colored crustacean with a fist-like club that accelerates underwater faster than a 22-calibur bullet.

To test that idea, Li and Dougherty recruited several peacock mantis shrimp—which, despite their names, aren’t actually shrimp—and kept them in tanks on the CU Boulder campus. Like disco clams, these ...

The mantis shrimp has been found to have one of the fastest, most powerful punches in the natural world.

Mantis shrimp see the world in a way like no other. Their bug-like eyes are equipped with a unique vision system, which discriminates between colours using a method never seen before. Like many ...

A giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef can see a world beyond the rainbow that is invisible to other animals, scientists said on Wednesday. Mantis shrimps, dubbed "thumb splitters ...