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Facts about Mantis Shrimp Powerful Strike
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Scientists study the dactyl club of mantis shrimp as inspiration for designing impact-resistant materials and protective gear for humans.
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Peacock mantis shrimp have been observed breaking through aquarium glass with their powerful strikes, making them challenging animals to keep in captivity.
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Smashing mantis shrimp use a hardened club-like appendage called the dactyl club, which resists fracture through a helix-shaped fiber structure.
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A mantis shrimp's strike is so fast that it causes cavitation bubbles in the water, which collapse and deliver a second shockwave to its target.
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The striking appendages of mantis shrimp accelerate faster than a bullet, delivering blows with forces hundreds of times the shrimp's own body weight.