Scientific name: Stomatopoda
More Facts:
1. The mantis shrimp lives in warm shallow waters.
2. It typically grows to be 15 - 30 cm in length.
3. While humans have 3 types of colour receptive cones, mantis shrimps has ........SIXTEEN.Think of 13 colours that does not exist in the world...impossible right? well, pretty much possible for that shrimp.
4. Mantis shrimps are absolutely scary killers.
5. They can punch fiercely... the 2 raptorial appendages accelerates with the same velocity as a gunshot.
6. In less than 3 thousandth of a second, they can strike a prey with 1500 Newtons of force.
7. Even if a mantis shrimp fails to strike its prey, the strength it used will cause an undersea shock wave that will kill its prey anyway.
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