what the heck is this seafood?

[unsped]

http://cre.ations.net/image/view/full/3325

 

[coinz]

some shit I would not eat

 

[MiniDoom]

shrimp?

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: rdubbz420
shrimp?

Specifically Mantis Shrimp
http://images.google.com/image...imp&btnG=Search+Images

 

[UncleWai]

it's a kind of shrimp. In chinese we called them pissing shrimp. If you poke them at a certain spot, they will piss all over. Taste like shrimp and lobster in between.

 

[unsped]

lol thanks, i was actually looking at them backwards, thinking the dots on the tails are eyes. im familiar with mantis shrimp i should have guessed that!

 

[Baked]

Man, that's nasty. I don't think I wanna eat shrimp and lobster again.

 

[Chiropteran]

Giant Sea Cockroach.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: unsped
lol thanks, i was actually looking at them backwards, thinking the dots on the tails are eyes. im familiar with mantis shrimp i should have guessed that!

This shows that you're not smarter than the average fish



Edit- Holy Shit. This thing is like the Chuck Norris of the Sea

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers ? because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages ? mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon

The "punch" delivered has roughly the acceleration of a .22 caliber pistol.

In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start

Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface [6]. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 N 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 [7]. Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing bubble. This will produce a very small amount of light and high temperatures in the range of several thousand Kelvin within the collapsing bubble, although both the light and high temperatures are too weak and short-lived to be detected without advanced scientific equipment. The light emission and temperature increase probably have no biological significance but are rather side-effects of the rapid snapping motion

 

[Juddog]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: unsped
lol thanks, i was actually looking at them backwards, thinking the dots on the tails are eyes. im familiar with mantis shrimp i should have guessed that!

This shows that you're not smarter than the average fish



Edit- Holy Shit. This thing is like the Chuck Norris of the Sea

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers ? because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages ? mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon

The "punch" delivered has roughly the acceleration of a .22 caliber pistol.

In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start

Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface [6]. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 N 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 [7]. Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing bubble. This will produce a very small amount of light and high temperatures in the range of several thousand Kelvin within the collapsing bubble, although both the light and high temperatures are too weak and short-lived to be detected without advanced scientific equipment. The light emission and temperature increase probably have no biological significance but are rather side-effects of the rapid snapping motion

Video of it in action:
BAM

 

[spidey07]

That's a pistol shrimp, much different than a mantis shrimp.

Lots of people keep mantis shrimp and you do have to be careful with them. They're called thumb splitters for a reason because they will literally spit your entire thumb wide open like it was butterflied by a freshly sharpened boning knife.

 

[interchange]

Holy cow. The wikipedia entry is awesome. Check out its vision. It's like a miniature underwater freaking Predator.

 

[eplebnista]

Interesting creatures.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Juddog

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: unsped
lol thanks, i was actually looking at them backwards, thinking the dots on the tails are eyes. im familiar with mantis shrimp i should have guessed that!

This shows that you're not smarter than the average fish



Edit- Holy Shit. This thing is like the Chuck Norris of the Sea

Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, "prawn killers" in Australia and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers ? because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages ? mantis shrimp sport powerful claws that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Mantis shrimp can break through aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon

The "punch" delivered has roughly the acceleration of a .22 caliber pistol.

In smashers, these two weapons are employed with blinding quickness, with an acceleration of 10,400 g and speeds of 23 m/s from a standing start

Because they strike so rapidly, they generate cavitation bubbles between the appendage and the striking surface [6]. The collapse of these cavitation bubbles produces measurable forces on their prey in addition to the instantaneous forces of 1,500 N 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 [7]. Even if the initial strike misses the prey, the resulting shock wave can be enough to kill or stun the prey.

The snap can also produce sonoluminescence from the collapsing bubble. This will produce a very small amount of light and high temperatures in the range of several thousand Kelvin within the collapsing bubble, although both the light and high temperatures are too weak and short-lived to be detected without advanced scientific equipment. The light emission and temperature increase probably have no biological significance but are rather side-effects of the rapid snapping motion

Video of it in action:
BAM

wtf shens!

 

[TheVrolok]

This thing is f'in awesome.

 

[Kaido]

That's NASA's secret funding source - they DID find life on Mars, now they sell it at Red Lobster

 

[techs]

Terrorist shrimp?

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: techs
Terrorist shrimp?

Yeah. For all those conspiracy theorists who say that burning jet fuel wasn't hot enough to melt the WTC, "temperature of the sun" bitches.

On that note: Shrimps on a Plane?