There are plenty of scary creatures on Earth (and especially in the ocean), but one of the most powerful might come as a ...

The mantis shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus has a bewildering abundance of color receptors—twelve to our three. The eyes also move and perceive depth independently of each other, and can see ...

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The mantis shrimp’s eyes are incredibly colourful and sophisticated, with the ability to see ultraviolet light and a spectrum we can’t imagine. Snow leopards have piercing golden eyes that ...

Growing to around the length of a butter knife, peacock mantis shrimp have rainbow shells—usually blue, green, and yellow—and red legs. Their purple eyes sit on top of stalks above their head ...

Praying mantises — with their angular features, huge eyes and centaur posture — often seem a bit alien. But researchers have recently found one mantis species that takes this otherworldly ...

The article, “Stereoscopic artificial compound eyes for spatiotemporal perception in three-dimensional space,” described the team’s praying mantis eyes-mimicking vision system — artificial ...

To capture prey so effectively mantis shrimps have the most impressive eyesight in the animal kingdom. While humans have three kinds of colour-receptive cones in their eyes; the mantis shrimp has ...