The types of mantis shrimps we investigated in our study are found in and around coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific area, but there are other species that inhabit temperate waters and the deep ocean.

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 ...

For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They ...