Despite their name, mantis shrimp are not true shrimp but a type of stomatopod: a relative of crabs and lobsters that has been on Earth for over 400 million years. There are more than 400 different ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming ...

Mantis shrimp live on bright, shallow reefs where light keeps changing. It bounces off sand, flashes off fish scales, and scatters through water. To deal with all that visual noise, their eyes are ...