April 30 (UPI) --Baby mantis shrimps start their lives as predators with ultra-fast movements -- from the first moment they start hunting for food -- according to a new study focused on the mechanisms ...

Last week I discovered, via Discover Magazine in fact, that the marvellous mantis shrimp was not quite the creature I thought it to be. Mantis shrimp - or Stomatopods - as we science types like to ...

Nature's 'sleeper beast,' the praying mantis, belies its calm facade with lethal predatory prowess. These insects, masters of stealth and speed, possess remarkable 3D vision and lightning-fast strikes ...