The Mantis Shrimp is freacking amazing!

The Mantis Shrimp is such a cool animal! It can see 16 Primary colors whereas humans can only see 3, imagine seeing that many colors!

It has 2 raptorial appendages on the front of its body and they accelerate with the same velocity as a bullet from a 22 caliber rifle and in less than three-thousandths of a second it can strike prey with 1500 newtons of force. If humans could accelerate our arms at 1/10 the speed we could launch a baseball into orbit. They're so quick that when they strike the water around them boils! Aquariums don't house them because they usually kill most other animals in the aquarium and they can break the aquarium glass.

This is why they're awesome. Plus they're freaking beautiful!