mantis shrimp
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This Savage Mantis Shrimp Hides In The Sand So That It Can Stab Fish And Bury Them
Damn. Mantis shrimp are crazy. They can strike prey as fast as a .22 calibre bullet, but this other stabbing technique some mantis shrimp use to kill is scary dark.
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Let’s Talk About Mantis Shrimp Fight Club
The fearsome mantis shrimp has many fascinating attributes, most notably its powerful hammer-like rounded claws — technically known as “raptorial appendages” — that it uses to crack open the hard shells of its favoured prey (clams and crabs) and to ward off predators. And now it seems they use them as weapons against each other,…