The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is a puny pugilist with a ferocious attitude. They are more than a little territorial, they know exactly who’s moving through their patch...Unaware of the mantis shrimp’s ...

Mantis shrimp live in warm, shallow waters in the Indian and Pacific oceans. To build a home, they use their raptor-like ...

Watch as a crab unknowingly wanders into the colorful mantis shrimp’s territory, with bad results for the crab.

What are mantis shrimp? Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There ...

And what a strike that is: When unleashed on a potential meal like a crab or a snail, the peacock mantis shrimp’s 2/10-inch-wide fist accelerates faster than a .22-caliber bullet, reaching ...

Territorial mantis shrimp are smashing up spanner crabs and endangered shark rays are eating them There is little fishers can do to address the problem, except avoid areas where attacks have occurred ...

A shrimp mantis; the ocean dwellers are being studied at the molecular level because engineers believe they could help in designing lighter and stronger body armor.

Rachel Crane first noticed the mantis shrimp's odd behaviour when she was a graduate student feeding the resident Mantis Shrimp in the Patek lab at Duke University. Whenever she dropped a crab ...

Heavy-hitting relatives of crabs and lobsters, mantis shrimp have spring-powered appendages that could easily deliver a fatal blow. One strike is enough to crack open a snail or dismember a crab.

To better understand how mantis shrimp communicate, scientists recorded the shrimp rumbling in and around their burrows off the coast of California.

Aquarists despise mantis shrimp -- cousins to the crustaceans served with cocktail sauce -- because of their huge appetites and lousy dispositions.