Human eyes rely on three types of photoreceptors to detect color: red, green and blue. Mantis ... a broader spectrum of light, including ultraviolet, which is invisible to us. The shrimp’s ...

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 ...

QUESTION: Which animal can see the widest spectrum of colours? Mantis shrimp have remarkable colour vision. They have as many as 16 types of photoreceptor cone, compared with the three humans have.

A study published on 6 February in Science 1 reveals that the mantis shrimp’s punching limb — known as the dactyl club — has a multilayered structure that allows it to absorb the shock waves ...