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With one blow, the mantis shrimp can defend their territory or kill its prey.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
This secondary shockwave effect, along with the initial impact force, makes the mantis shrimp's strike even more devastating.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
What's unusual in the mantis shrimp is that there is a one-millisecond delay between when the unlatching and the snapping action occurs.
—Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
With 12 types of photoreceptors (compared to humans' piddly three – red, green, and blue), mantis shrimp can see all the colors, including parts of the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
This secondary shockwave effect, along with the initial impact force, makes the mantis shrimp's strike even more devastating.
—Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
What's unusual in the mantis shrimp is that there is a one-millisecond delay between when the unlatching and the snapping action occurs.
—Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
With 12 types of photoreceptors (compared to humans' piddly three – red, green, and blue), mantis shrimp can see all the colors, including parts of the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Mantis shrimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mantis%20shrimp. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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