The shield-like tail segment, or telson, of the smasher mantis shrimp is a multiscale structure with ridges on the outside and a structure shaped like a spiral staircase on the inside. It's inspiring ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.-- Smart boxers bind their hands with strips of cloth to avoid injury when they pack a punch. Millions of years ago, the "smasher" mantis shrimp, one of nature's feistiest predators, ...

Purdue doctoral student Nicolás Guarín-Zapata holds a "dactyl club," the mantis shrimp uses to pummel the shells of hapless prey. New findings about the structure's natural design could lead to super ...

There are two types of mantis shrimp, inhabitants of shallow tropical seas, which have different methods of employing their ...

Mantis shrimps carefully survey burrows before trying to evict rivals, new research shows. Mantis shrimps carefully survey burrows before trying to evict rivals, new research shows. Burrows in coral ...

The mantis shrimp was named after its resemblance to both a praying mantis and a shrimp. But instead of being a poor imitation of these creatures, it surpasses them both when it comes to hunting ...

For a tiny crustacean, Caribbean rock mantis shrimp (Neogonodactylus bredini) pack a ferocious punch. Bludgeoning the shells of snails and other crustaceans to gain access to the tasty snail within, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The mantis shrimp, one of the ocean’s most ornery creatures, can take on attacks from its own species without getting injured. Its strategy could solve a big manufacturing ...

I wish I had a time machine so I could scoot forward around 750,000 years to see how the Mantis Shrimp handled emergence as the top species of the planet after Humanity sunk a lot of land mass under ...

Researchers exploring biomimicry -- or how nature influences design -- have found unique inspiration in crustaceans to provide clues for developing stronger materials. For example, researchers have ...

Size matters to the small-but-mighty mantis shrimp, which show a marked preference for burrows in coral rubble with volumes that closely match their own body size or are just a bit larger—in other ...