If you are considering keeping a mantis shrimp, understanding their habitat is critical. Spearing species need deep sand and ...

A routine stop at a local bait store turned wild when a mantis shrimp—nicknamed the “alien of the ocean”—decided to fight ...

Original artwork of a mantis shrimp (Odontodactylus scyllarus) (Linnaeus, 1758.) Plate is by artist Phan Hay in Manning, R.B., 1995, "Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam." (Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s ...

The mantis shrimp is one of evolution's greatest hits—literally. This pugnacious crustacean (not technically a shrimp) cocks back its hammer-limbs and smashes prey with such ferocity, a shockwave ...

"Youngworld: The Mantis Shrimp Matrix" by artist Sarah Pedinotti explores empathy, the waste crisis and more through the colorful crustacean.

In his 1879 account of wanderings in the Orient, the travel writer James Hingston describes how, in West Java, he was treated to a bizarre experience: I am taken by my kind host around his garden, and ...