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RAINBOW MANTIS SHRIMP (Pseudosquilla ciliata) guarding her eggs ©Aleksandr Marinicev A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals. Dr Sonja Kleinlogel and Professor Andrew White have shown that mantis shrimp not only have the ability to see colours from the ultraviolet through to the infrared, but have optimal polarisation vision — a first for any animal and a capability that humanity has only achieved in the last decade using fast computer technology. The findings are published in the journal PLoS ONE. “The mantis shrimp is a delightfully weird beastie,” said Professor White, of the University of Queensland. “They’re multi-coloured, their genus and species names mean ‘mouth-feet’ and ‘genital-fingers’; they can move each eye independently, they see the world in 11 or 12 primary colours as opposed to our humble three, and now we find that this species can see a world invisible to the rest of us.” Fact Source: http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=67410802519 Other photos you may like: Mantis Shrimp Mantis Shrimp (vision) Transparent Crayfish

RAINBOW MANTIS SHRIMP (Pseudosquilla ciliata) guarding her eggs

©Aleksandr Marinicev

A Swiss marine biologist and an Australian quantum physicist have found that a species of shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, can see a world invisible to all other animals. Dr Sonja Kleinlogel and Professor Andrew White have shown that mantis shrimp not only have the ability to see colours from the ultraviolet through to the infrared, but have optimal polarisation vision — a first for any animal and a capability that humanity has only achieved in the last decade using fast computer technology. The findings are published in the journal PLoS ONE.

“The mantis shrimp is a delightfully weird beastie,” said Professor White, of the University of Queensland. “They’re multi-coloured, their genus and species names mean ‘mouth-feet’ and ‘genital-fingers’; they can move each eye independently, they see the world in 11 or 12 primary colours as opposed to our humble three, and now we find that this species can see a world invisible to the rest of us.”

Fact Source: http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=67410802519

Other photos you may like:

Mantis Shrimp

Mantis Shrimp (vision)

Transparent Crayfish

Notes

  1. emerycatt reblogged this from bonedust and added:
    I wish I could see all those colorsss
  2. bonedust reblogged this from animalworld and added:
    If shrimp lived on land would people still eat them?
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    9_6 MOTHER OF GOD
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  7. mariangelatan reblogged this from animalworld and added:
    Beautiful colors!
  8. apneist reblogged this from animalworld and added:
    Just plain amazing creatures. Read what animalworld had
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    Genital-fingers and polarization sold me
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