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Electric_Head wrote:personally I`d like to know WTF this is???

johney wrote:Seagull. Read a cool book about them once

q-t wrote:

I'm a turtle and I've got guns.
Beat that.

johney wrote:But it haz sea in itz namez!

badger wrote:

q-t wrote:

I'm a turtle and I've got guns.
Beat that.

sorry to piss on your bonfire (or whatever the sea version would be - pile of rotting kelp? ) but that's a tortoise and they live on land

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" — because of the animal's ability to inflict painful gashes if handled incautiously — mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Although it happens rarely, some larger species of mantis shrimp are capable of breaking through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon.

Spearers are armed with spiny appendages topped with barbed tips, used to stab and snag prey.

Smashers, on the other hand, possess a much more developed club and a more rudimentary spear (which is nevertheless quite sharp and still used in fights between their own kind); the club is used to bludgeon and smash their meals apart. The inner aspect of the dactyl (the terminal portion of the appendage) can also possess a sharp edge, with which the animal can cut prey while it swims.

Both types strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at the prey, and are capable of inflicting serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves. In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g (102,000 m/s2 or 335,000 ft/s2) and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start, about the acceleration of a .22 calibre bullet. Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 newtons that are caused by the impact of the appendage against the striking surface, which means that the prey is hit twice by a single strike; first by the claw and then by the collapsing cavitation bubbles that immediately follow. Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

SunkLo wrote:

esfandyar wrote:these guys. mantis shrimps box and break shells with their mighty punching fists.

ehbrums1 wrote:Magma I couldnt agree more with your sig. People history is such a depressing book

mashmash wrote:this thread just reminded me of my phobia of the sea in general. always been terrified of sea creatures/ underwater in general, especially sharks