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What's unusual in the mantis shrimp is that there is a one-millisecond delay between when the unlatching and the snapping action occurs.
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Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
With 12 types of photoreceptors (compared to humans' piddly three – red, green, and blue), mantis shrimp can see all the colors, including parts of the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Using their tough tail plates in a coiled way appears to help the mantis shrimp to dissipate more energy than their armor can absorb alone.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
Changing the light's polarization characteristics in this manner mimics things found in nature, like the ridiculously sophisticated and specialized vision of the mantis shrimp.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
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Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
With 12 types of photoreceptors (compared to humans' piddly three – red, green, and blue), mantis shrimp can see all the colors, including parts of the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Using their tough tail plates in a coiled way appears to help the mantis shrimp to dissipate more energy than their armor can absorb alone.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
Changing the light's polarization characteristics in this manner mimics things found in nature, like the ridiculously sophisticated and specialized vision of the mantis shrimp.
—New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Mantis shrimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mantis%20shrimp. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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