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 ...

Mantis shrimp, often brightly colored and fiercely aggressive sea creatures with outsized strength, use the ultraviolet reflectance of their color spots as well as chemical signals to assess the ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by vision scientists Qasim Zaidi, Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York,and Bevil R. Conway, of the Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College. For ...

Freshwater aquarium hobbyists often search for the ideal array of aquatic animals to include in their environment. One relatively easy animal to consider adding to your tank is shrimp. Depending on ...

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 ...