How to Use mantis shrimp in a Sentence

mantis shrimp

noun
  • Keep your distance from mantis shrimp, and make sure your pets do too.
    — Shannon Marvel McNaught, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Yet, this seems to have little to no effect on mantis shrimp.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The mantis shrimp has a pair of odd limbs called dactyl clubs that look a bit like boxing gloves.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But perhaps that’s not giving the mantis shrimp enough credit.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • Imagine trying to build a TV that looks right to a mantis shrimp.
    — Thomas Cronin, University Of Maryland, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
  • With one blow, the mantis shrimp can defend their territory or kill its prey.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2025
  • One species of salamander, the pearl moth caterpillar, and one species of mantis shrimp can all do the same.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2011
  • True story about the mantis shrimp who shattered her aquarium walls.
    — Catherine Barnett, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The mantis shrimp’s strike is an adaptation for shell penetration.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Remarkably, two mantis shrimp can duke it out and remain unscathed afterward.
    — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 13 July 2019
  • The clip includes tense footage of orca whales hunting seals, soaring schools of fish, a close-up of a colorful mantis shrimp, and much more.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Pick from Dungeness crab, lobster, beef and pork, as well as such specialties as mantis shrimp, geoduck clams and spot shrimp.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The final shot of the mantis shrimp with eggs landed him an honorable mention in the macro category.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Can a mantis shrimp and a crocodile teach us about building trust and the strength of vulnerability?
    — cleveland, 20 July 2021
  • In the first menu, customers can find spaghetti with mantis shrimp, salted lemon, sea grapes and monkfish paired with bagna càuda and green asparagus.
    — Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The team of researchers tested a hypothesis that the peacock mantis shrimp’s resilience comes from the structure of its dactyl clubs.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The mantis shrimp is one of evolution's greatest hits—literally.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Dec. 2019
  • This secondary shockwave effect, along with the initial impact force, makes the mantis shrimp's strike even more devastating.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • They are eaten by virtually any reef predator—fish, mantis shrimps, crabs, even some predatory mollusks.
    — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
  • The peacock mantis shrimp is neither peacock nor mantis nor shrimp, but is ALL awesome.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2012
  • The researchers measured the mechanical properties of each layer and made a model of the mantis shrimp’s punch.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
  • The mantis shrimp, a denizen of tropical waters, leads a particularly vibrant life.
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The mantis shrimp were collected from burrows in seagrass beds along the Caribbean coast of Panama.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2020
  • What's unusual in the mantis shrimp is that there is a one-millisecond delay between when the unlatching and the snapping action occurs.
    — Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Feller and her collaborators experimented with six females and one male mantis shrimp.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The brightest student in class responded within seconds with an image of the mantis shrimp, which possesses infrared vision.
    — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2021
  • And at least one species of mantis shrimp can also increase elastic potential energy storage in proportion to increases in body mass.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Researchers discovered that the brain of mantis shrimp contains memory and learning centers, called mushroom bodies, which so far have been seen only in insects.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Fossils of mantis shrimp, shark teeth, dinoflagellates and saline-loving bacteria were discovered deep beneath the rain forest.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • The mantis shrimp is nature’s high-speed boxer with multi-spectral vision, a creature that hits faster than a bullet’s acceleration and sees the unseen.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025

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