Peacock Mantis Shrimp Hammers Away Without Fail (4 of 7) (VIDEO)

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This is a short movie clip of Stomatopod using high energy impacts against a snail. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the June 8, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.C. Weaver at the Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, “The Stomatopod Dactyl Club: A Formidable Damage-Tolerant Biological Hammer.”

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Movie clip courtesy of Kisailus Lab

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