The mantis shrimp is a fearsome marine predator. Discover more about them and one clam's unlikely defense against their ...

while Red Sea mantis shrimp are beige with thin red stripes and a dark rear end. But all these animals are best known for their mighty front claws—responsible for their impressive hunting skills.

Some of these shrimp have special glowing organs that ... This research helps improve the understanding of how deep-sea animals are able to not only live but thrive in such extreme and dark ...

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

Now scientists have added another distinction: The mantis shrimp has a really strange way of seeing colors. People and other animals perceive a palette of colors by blending and comparing signals ...

When throwing punches, mantis shrimp can strike at the speed of a .22 caliber bullet (about 1,316 kmph or 818 mph)—one of the fastest movements in the animal kingdom. That generates a force over ...

New species of shark, sea butterfly, mud dragon, bamboo coral, water bear, octocoral, and shrimp were just some of the findings that were registered in a directory after the collaborative ...

They give endangered and threatened sea turtles an escape hatch before they drown in nets. The mesh allows shrimp and small fish to pass through but veers turtles and large fish to an opening in ...

The term ‘shrimp’ embraces several species which are all described and differentiated. Thus from this district we have the common ‘brown shrimp’, the original shrimp of commerce ...