usatoday.com — It isn't muscle power alone. In fact, the mantis shrimp needs 470,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle to break standard aquarium glass; orders of magnitude higher than the fastest-moving muscles can deliver. The creature's weapon needs much energy delivered fast
Feb 22, 2006 View in Crawl 4
britoverseasFeb 22, 2006
What is it with "Old" all the time. It is only "Old" to somebody who has seen or read it before. Although I have seen these things before, the mechanism behind its power is newish to me and a good read nevertheless.
volz0rFeb 22, 2006
Eh, while this IS interesting, and I will digg it, it is rather old information. I rememberseeing something about this on TV years ago with all this information and more.They also can stun small fish with the shockwave the claw creates.
rikkitikkitavyFeb 22, 2006
How is this news? Who cares?
olegoFeb 22, 2006
Sheila Patek was her name.
temedFeb 22, 2006
While the mantis shrimp is always an interesting read, its hardly news. Anyone who owns/has owned a reef aquarium knows about mantis shrimp and what they can do.
tridentboyFeb 22, 2006
The human mantis..Dun dund nunn
dayyveFeb 23, 2006
Interesting read fo' sho'. And thanks for the nice links provided, although I'm a big softy who felt really bad for that snail. Brutal!
cmilkoskFeb 23, 2006
Saw that on "The Most Extreme".And the Mantis Shrimp is... the most ... extreme...
silencer7Feb 23, 2006
I can't believe 'shrimpoluminescence' is a real word. 'Shrimp achieves fusion...'
Closed AccountFeb 24, 2006
imagine a shark sized mantis shrimp....
Closed AccountNov 10, 2006
I have a nice Peac**k Mantis Shrimp. He's awesome, but he's the only thing in the tank!He has hit the glass several times - I hope it doesn't break anytime soon!We have several videos of feedings: <a class="user" href="http://www.galaxy15.com/mantis-shrimp.html">http://www.galaxy15.com/mantis-shrimp.html</a>