Articles for tag: MantisShrimp, MarineScience, NatureFacts, OceanLife, UnderwaterCreatures

a humpback whale swims under the surface of the water

9 Wild Animals You Should Thank Instead of Fear

Suhail Ahmed

We tell spooky stories about teeth, talons, and stingers, but the scariest thing in nature might be what happens when these animals disappear. Remove a predator and entire food webs wobble; lose a scavenger and pathogens get a free ride. The surprising twist is that many creatures people dread are the same ones quietly keeping ...

a close up of a fish in an aquarium

The Mantis Shrimp That Sees a Color Spectrum We Can’t Even Imagine

Suhail Ahmed

On a sunlit reef, where most eyes register a pretty blur of blues, a mantis shrimp is reading a hidden newspaper of light. Its gaze cuts the water into razor-thin slices of color and polarization, decoding messages most animals never notice. Biologists say its vision is less like a painter’s palette and more like a ...