The prehistoric psychopathic clown, with it’s sexnocular eyes, aka the mantis shrimp is the latest creature to get some very thorough and scientific coverage by zefrank1 in the “True facts about series”. We have previously covered the True Facts about the Seapig and the True facts about the Anglerfish, but this installment is probably the most entertaining yet, and for good reasons as the mantis shrimp is probably one of the most intriguing creatures of the sea.
The mantis shrimp’s amazing eyes and vision are covered, as is the creatures killing instinct, and it’s physics defying punch which display sonoluminesence (bubbles collapse under the pressure of a sound wave, which creates light and 20,000 K of heat, which is a lot hotter than the surface of the sun).
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