Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 ...

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 ...

Some of the most innovative and useful inventions have been inspired by nature. Take the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan, whose aerodynamic design is modeled after the kingfisher bird. Or Velcro, ...

The mantis shrimp and pistol shrimp rely on fundamentally different biological weapons, each capable of inflicting serious damage. One delivers rapid strikes with enough force to break shells, while ...

A surprising amount of technology is inspired by animals. Raptors packing Sidewinder missiles shoot down the occasional suspicious balloon. Scientists deploy robotic sloths to collect vital ecological ...

Among the shrimp species that surround South Carolina’s coast, mantis shrimp stand out as most notable of them all. Not even technically a shrimp, mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are distant relatives ...

The mantis shrimp delivers one of the fastest and most violent strikes in the animal kingdom, generating cavitation bubbles that create underwater shockwaves capable of smashing shells and shattering ...