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A palm-sized shrimp throws a punch fast enough to boil water

Few animals in the ocean pack more violence into a smaller package than the mantis shrimp. Most species top out around 10 ...
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This small sea creature packs a deadly punch, and here's how the mantis shrimp's strike works

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It has superpowers, the fastest punch in the animal kingdom and and is very reluctant to leave its fortress burrow beneath the ocean floor

Most species of mantis shrimp live in burrows which they dig out of the soft seabed using their massive front claws.

Star-fingered toads use fingertip lobules to detect prey in murky water

Surinam toads (Pipa pipa) are strange, flat frogs with minuscule eyes that live in the murky waters of the Amazon basin and ...