Nature is full of beauty and verdant wonder, but there’s a darker side. Just beyond the edge of the environment’s allure sits ...

Mantis shrimp are small but impressive predators that can kill prey bigger than themselves ... allowing the animal to perceive depth with either eye. Human eyes have three photoreceptors ...

With a single blow, a mantis shrimp can kill prey or defend its territory against ... similar to the coating of human teeth. Beneath this coating is an approximately 500-micrometer-thick layer ...

While humans have three kinds of colour-receptive cones in their eyes; the mantis shrimp has up to twelve. The zebra mantis shrimp is the largest mantis shrimp in the world, growing over 40 cm in ...