Growing to around the length of a butter knife, peacock mantis shrimp have rainbow shells—usually blue, green, and yellow—and red legs. Their purple eyes sit on top of stalks above their head ...

The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known as dactyl clubs. But when it smashes the shells of its prey, these fists ...

It's the peacock mantis shrimp, and despite its diminutive nature, it is arguably the most intimidating and flat-out impressive creature on Earth. Technically speaking, mantis shrimp are not ...

This enables the shrimp to preserve its striking ability over multiple impacts and prevent soft tissue damage.” The team of researchers tested a hypothesis that the peacock mantis shrimp’s ...

One of the most impressive creatures in the ocean, every centimetre of the peacock mantis shrimp radiates colour ... Our three photoreceptors reveal a rainbow to us - but we can't begin to imagine the ...

The Peacock mantis shrimp holds the Guinness World Record for the strongest self-powered strike by an animal. | Credit: Reinhard Dirscherl/Getty Images Mantis shrimps pack a powerful punch — and ...

Powerful punch Peacock mantis shrimp use a complex system of biological latches and springs in their dactyl clubs to unleash a punch at a speed of 75 feet per second (23 meters per second ...