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 ...

I write about the world of biology. At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming crustacean that spends its days scuttling along the seafloor. But don’t let their small size fool you into ...

The mantis shrimp uses its specially designed club-like claws to quickly smash whatever prey item it fancies. In fact, some ...

These shrimp are generally solitary and like to live alone in burrows that they dig in the sand or rocks.

see also Others identified the creature as a mantis shrimp, a predatory crustacean known for capturing and dispatching prey with its large raptorial claws — hence the name. There are two types ...

Caption A species of mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda: Squillidae), which still exists today, from the Pacific of Panama in side view (A) and details of the raptorial claw (B).Fossil of a Miocene ...