preventing the damaging vibrations from traveling back into the mantis shrimp’s body. But scientists hadn’t proven it in the lab. “It was mostly theoretical calculations,” says Hortense Le ...

Forget about Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali, the fastest punch in the world belongs to the mantis shrimp. This shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and remain intact despite the ...

A mantis shrimp's punch creates high-energy waves. Its exoskeleton is designed to absorb that energy, preventing cracking and tissue damage.

Dactyl clubs are hammer-like structures located on each side of a mantis shrimp’s body. They store energy in elastic ...

The dactyl clubs act as a phononic shield, filtering high-frequency stress waves and preventing harmful vibrations from ...

A ghost mantis, also known as Phyllocrania paradoxa, is a species of praying mantis that can go undetected in many forest environments because of their unusual features. Their bodies mimic the ...

Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There are more than 400 ...

When this team-up is active, Mantis gains the power of cocooned revival, allowing her to reforge her body at a preferred location once she is taken down. Furthermore, Mantis and Warlock have ...

The mantis represents the first record of the genus ... Unlike males, females have very short wings that only cover the front part of their body. “Even in non-tropical areas we can expect ...