Armed with the most sophisticated vision and fastest strike of any predator on Earth, the mantis shrimp is an unsuspecting threat. | National Geographic

Mantis Shrimp Punch Is Out of This World 🌎💥 | Watermelon Sugar

Take a good look.👀 You are staring into the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, and the most complex visual system ever discovered.🦐 The eyes of a mantis shrimp are mounted on mobile stalks and can move independently of each other. Each eye has between 12-16 types of photoreceptor cells ⁠— humans have just 3. Referred to as 'spectral tuning' the shrimp is able to tune the sensitivity of their long-wavelength color vision to adapt to their environment; allowing it to perceive wavelengths o

What big eyes you have! Mantis shrimp have one of the most complex visual systems in the animal kingdom. Their eyes have up to 16 photoreceptors (whereas humans have four). They are able to see UV, visible, and polarized light and are able to move each eye independently. This must help the accuracy of their 50 mile per hour punch which they use to stun their prey! Video by @matthewunderwater | Discovery