The colorful mantis shrimp is known for powerful claws that can stun prey with 200 lbs. of force. Now, new research finds that these aggressive crustaceans are weird in another way: They see color ...

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 discriminating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With 12 colour receptors, the mantis shrimp seems visually unmatched. But studies reveal that their visual system likely isn’t as ...

The peacock mantis shrimp, like this juvenile Odontodactylus scyllarus, are smashing superheroes. The colorful crustaceans have a hammerlike claw that can smash prey with the acceleration of a ...

Mantis shrimps became the subject of a new study by researchers of the University of Queensland for their unique eyes. The bulbous eyes of the colorful marine crustaceans boast of 12 photoreceptors ...

The colorful mantis shrimp is known for powerful claws that can stun prey with 200 lbs. (91 kilograms) of force. Now, new research finds that these aggressive crustaceans are weird in another way: ...

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 ...