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A mantis shrimp punches faster than a speeding bullet
The club reaches prey in about three milliseconds and boils water briefly Energy is stored in a saddle shaped spring in the arm and released in one movement. The strike is so fast that collapsing bubbles produce a second shock. Their eyes also carry far more colour receptor types than ours. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A mantis shrimp punches faster than a speeding bullet: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The club reaches prey in about three milliseconds and boils water briefly. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.