This is a guest post by vision scientists Qasim Zaidi, Graduate Center for Vision Research, State University of New York,and Bevil R. Conway, of the Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College. For ...

Shrimp is popular — maybe more popular than you realize. It frequently sits at the top of America's list of most consumed seafood by a comfortable margin and is a staple of so many different cuisines ...

Summer's in full swing right now, and if we're honest, nothing captures the season quite like a bowl of juicy, flavorful and tender shrimp hot off the grill. Top them with some garlic and lemon, and ...

Mantis shrimp, often brightly colored and fiercely aggressive sea creatures with outsized strength, use both the ultraviolet reflectance of their color spots and chemical cues when fighting over ...

The eyes of the mantis shrimp have more types of photoreceptors, or color-detecting cells, than any animal on the planet. But the bottom-dwelling sea creatures are surprisingly bad at discriminating ...