Mantis shrimp wear tinted shades to see UV light
Saturday, July 5, 2014 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When you look at a mantis shrimp, you see a vivid lobster-like crustacean whose forearms can strike with the force of a .22-caliber bullet. But when a mantis shrimp looks at you, we have no idea what it sees. That’s because the mantis shrimp possesses one of the most complex eyeballs on the...