The rainbow mantis shrimp may look like an alien, but they have sophisticated vision unlike any other animal, including ...

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Mantis shrimp can see the world in a way that had never been observed in any animal before, researchers report in the March 20th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The discovery—which marks ...

The bizarre visual system of the colorful mantis shrimp just got weirder: New research finds these animals use a natural sunscreen compound to see ultraviolet light. Researchers knew that mantis ...

Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3-D vision in praying mantises that could lead to simpler visual processing for robots. Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3D vision in praying ...

BRISTOL, England, July 12 (UPI) --Those eye-rolling mantis shrimp aren't showing disrespect, they're just trying to sharpen their eyesight. According to researchers at the University of Bristol, eye ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. As humans, we experience an amazing world of colour, but what can other animals see? Some see much more than us, but how ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A mantis shrimp, which has one of the most elaborate visual systems ever discovered, turns out to be pretty lousy at distinguishing one color from another. The puzzling ...