A snapshot of blacktip reef sharks hunting hardyhead silverside fish won the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition.

Forget about Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali, the fastest punch in the world belongs to the mantis shrimp. This shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet and remain intact despite the ...

The animal kingdom is home to creatures whose eyesight is sharper than ours. While humans rely on their sight for most daily activities, many animals depend on their vision to hunt, evade predators, ...

The new species, named Salmoneus manningi, is “overall whitish” with “ivory white” asymmetrical claws, researchers described.

Mantis shrimp have remarkable colour vision. They have as many as 16 types of photoreceptor cone, compared with the three ...