Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming ...

Among the shrimp species that surround South Carolina’s coast, mantis shrimp stand out as most notable of them all. Not even technically a shrimp, mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are distant relatives ...

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 different ...