The mantis shrimp delivers punches at over 50 mph, faster than a bullet’s acceleration, creating shockwaves strong enough to ...

These solitary, aggressive animals are famous for their ferocious punch—as fast as a bullet and strong enough to snap a crab’s claw. Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian ...

Some animals have mind-blowing powers that sound like pure science fiction—from shrimp with shockwave punches to jellyfish ...

What's the currency for all life on Earth? Carbon. Every living thing needs a source of carbon to grow and reproduce. In the form of organic ...

DESCRIPTION: The Riverside fairy shrimp is a small, freshwater crustacean between 13 and 25 millimeters long, with females being slightly smaller than males. The animal's frontal appendage is ...

In the hidden corners of the ocean floor lived one of the most powerful hunters of the marine world — the pistol shrimp, a ...

The eyes of the mantis shrimp have more types of photoreceptors, or color-detecting cells, than any animal on the planet. But the bottom-dwelling sea creatures are surprisingly bad at ...

Crustaceans, a small but mighty animal classification group of invertebrates, can be found scuttling across the ocean floor, ...