Researchers have long known that the mantis shrimp eye contains 12 color receptors, but they had no idea why.Humans and most other animals use three color-receptors to see the spectrum of light.

Instead of comparing wavelengths of the visible spectrum in their brains, the mantis shrimp uses its 12 photoreceptors to "make quick and reliable determinations of color," the study authors wrote ...

Researchers have long known that the mantis shrimp eye contains 12 color receptors, but they had no idea why. Humans and most other animals use three color-receptors to see the spectrum of light.

The mantis shrimp has 16 different photoreceptors (we have only three), and the ones that deal with color sit clustered in the midband, a horizontal stripe of straws that bisects the eyeball.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A mantis shrimp, which has one of the most elaborate visual systems ever discovered, turns out to be pretty lousy at distinguishing one color from another. The puzzling ...

Mantis shrimp's six UV photoreceptors pick up on different colors within the UV spectrum based on filters made from an ingredient other animals depend on as built-in biological sunscreen ...

Researchers knew the mantis shrimp had some tricked-out peepers—its visual world consists of 11 to 12 basic colors (compared with three for humans) as well as infrared and ultraviolet light.

Even though the eye-catching mantis shrimp has 12 different color receptor cones (compared to humans' three for red, blue, and green), it may be worse at discerning colors. Login. Subscribe. News; ...

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Researchers have long known that the mantis shrimp eye contains 12 color receptors, but they had no idea why. Humans and most other animals use three color-receptors to see the spectrum of light.