Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 ...

A mantis shrimp’s club-like appendage accelerates so fast that it generates cavitation bubbles in the surrounding water, briefly producing vapor through a process often compared to boiling. The strike ...

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Some of the most innovative and useful inventions have been inspired by nature. Take the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan, whose aerodynamic design is modeled after the kingfisher bird. Or Velcro, ...

After years spent foolishly underestimating the power of shrimp to do much other than fill our bellies with their delicious water-bug meat, we’ve been shocked out of our complacency by a video of one ...