How to Use mantis shrimp in a Sentence

mantis shrimp

noun

• Imagine trying to build a TV that looks right to a mantis shrimp.
  — Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
• Keep your distance from mantis shrimp, and make sure your pets do too.
  — Shannon Marvel McNaught, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• One species of salamander, the pearl moth caterpillar, and one species of mantis shrimp can all do the same.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2011
• But perhaps that’s not giving the mantis shrimp enough credit.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
• The peacock mantis shrimp, a relative of crabs and lobsters, throws a punch at 50 miles per hour, which is faster than a .22 caliber bullet.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Three-year-old An Biên specializes in Haiphong-style seafood, like thick bánh da noodles in a rich crab-and-pork broth, or plump mantis shrimp to dunk in a bubbling hot pot.
  — Peter Jon Lindberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2018
• The peacock mantis shrimp is neither peacock nor mantis nor shrimp, but is ALL awesome.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
• The final shot of the mantis shrimp with eggs landed him an honorable mention in the macro category.
  — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
• The researchers measured the mechanical properties of each layer and made a model of the mantis shrimp’s punch.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
• The mantis shrimp were collected from burrows in seagrass beds along the Caribbean coast of Panama.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
• Can a mantis shrimp and a crocodile teach us about building trust and the strength of vulnerability?
  — cleveland, 20 July 2021
• Leave it to the multi-talented mantis shrimp to unlock the secret to underwater GPS.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• Strike mechanics of an ambush predator: the spearing mantis shrimp.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2012
• 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.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• The mantis shrimp is one of evolution's greatest hits—literally.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
• Ever the Marvel fan, Mikel-Stites pushed for Dazzler, who has sonoluminescent powers (think the sonic shock wave produced by the powerful snap of a mantis shrimp's claw, writ large).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2018
• Remarkably, two mantis shrimp can duke it out and remain unscathed afterward.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
• From a playful-looking stoat to a mantis shrimp guarding its eggs, the animal subjects in the 2023 Sony World Photography Awards are captivating.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• The kangaroo was a particular hit, but other animal builds in the kit include a leopard, mouse, boar, monkey—and a mantis shrimp, complete with leg-like swimmerets.
  — Michelle Z. Donahue, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
• The brightest student in class responded within seconds with an image of the mantis shrimp, which possesses infrared vision.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2021
• Researchers discovered that the brain of mantis shrimp contains memory and learning centers, called mushroom bodies, which so far have been seen only in insects.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
• And many animals, from mayflies and mantis shrimp to lizards and bats, can perceive the polarization of light, a helpful navigation cue that, among other things, can be used to determine the position of the sun on overcast days.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• They are eaten by virtually any reef predator—fish, mantis shrimps, crabs, even some predatory mollusks.
  — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• According to the paper, predatory fish caught near the whales were stuffed with mantis shrimp, stomach contents that matched those of a humpback whale studied in 1990 that died after getting entangled in rock lobster fishing gear.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017
• The beetle study is part of an $8 million project funded by the U.S. Air Force to explore how the biology of creatures such as mantis shrimp and bighorn sheep could help develop impact-resistant materials.
  — Marion Renault, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Fossils of mantis shrimp, shark teeth, dinoflagellates and saline-loving bacteria were discovered deep beneath the rain forest.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• But according to a new paper published in the journal Animal Behavior, sometimes a mantis shrimp will compromise.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
• Feller and her collaborators experimented with six females and one male mantis shrimp.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• Light bouncing off objects always contains a polarized component, and this property of light can reveal objects that otherwise blend into the background; mantis shrimp use it to find prey in their blue-tinged ocean environs.
  — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2019
• These wines were created to be enjoyed with food—consider cappellietti pasta with white cuttlefish ragu and mantis shrimp, or asparagus salad with broad beans, peas, saltwort with a cream of almonds and hazelnuts.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 July 2022

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024