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Feb 18, 2026
The Mantis Shrimp: The Most Powerful Punch in the Sea
The mantis shrimp throws the fastest punch in the animal kingdom, boils the water around it, and sees colours we can't imagine. Meet the ocean's pint-sized superpredator.
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Jan 28, 2026
How Mantis Shrimp See
Mantis shrimp have the most complex eyes on Earth — up to 16 photoreceptors, independent swivelling eyes, single-eye depth, and the only known vision of circularly polarized light.
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