A mantis shrimp with raised smasher clubs and stalked eyes beside a cracked snail shell, a cavitation burst, and a burrow entrance on a light gray background.

Thumb Splitters With 16 Photoreceptors — How Well Do You Know Mantis Shrimp?

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

25

Volts

3/q

They punch with the force of a bullet, see polarized light humans can't detect, and some species roll into wheels to cross sand. Mantis shrimp are 400-million-year-old predators with the most complex eyes in nature. This quiz hits hard.

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