These fierce crustaceans use their tails as shields to defend against the explosive punches of their rivals. New research found that their shells make a decent shield against rival mantis ...

For a relatively small critter, the mantis shrimp certainly makes some major waves in the scientific community. The crustacean has served as the inspiration for research into everything from ...

The comic-book hero Ant-Man boasts incredible superpowers - but could face competition from other insects. From mantis shrimp with supervision to ants that can lift 5,000 times their own body weight, ...

Nature is a wonderful and bottomless source of inspiration for the inventors of our world, and there are so many technologies that have been created after studying creatures and natural processes that ...

Mantis shrimp, known as sushi, is a type of arthropod that lives on the seabed. I am. By modeling the punching mechanism of such a mantis shrimp, a robot that reproduces the powerful attack was ...