{"id":206197,"date":"2025-02-12T02:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/mantis-shrimp-reveals-the-secret-to-surviving-its-deadly-shockwaves"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:06:50","slug":"mantis-shrimp-reveals-the-secret-to-surviving-its-deadly-shockwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/mantis-shrimp-reveals-the-secret-to-surviving-its-deadly-shockwaves","title":{"rendered":"Mantis Shrimp Reveals The Secret to Surviving Its Deadly Shockwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHTTIg7HY80?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 meters per second \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-discover-how-mantis-shrimp-can-punch-so-hard-without-damaging-their-claw\">a king-hit<\/a> delivering a jaw-dropping 1,500 newtons of force to crack open the shells of their prey.<\/p>\n<p>These blows are so powerful that scientists have wondered how the crustacean itself remains intact against the recoil effects.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they\u2019ve uncovered one of its secrets. The dactyl clubs that rain down mantis shrimp pain have a fascinating structure that filters out shocks, protecting the animal behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 meters per second \u2013 a king-hit delivering a jaw-dropping 1,500 newtons of force to crack open the shells of their prey. These blows are so powerful that scientists have wondered how the crustacean [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}