Peacock Mantis Shrimp Hammers Away Without Fail (2 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Peacock Mantis Shrimp Hammers Away Without Fail (2 of 7)

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This image shows tropical (left) and cold water (right) display tanks in the Kisailus Lab where stomatopods are housed. This image 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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