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Bioceramics power the mantis shrimp's famous punch

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Researchers in Singapore can now explain what gives the mantis shrimp, a marine crustacean that hunts by battering its prey with its club-like appendages, the most powerful punch in the animal kingdom. They show that a saddle-shaped structure in the mantis shrimp's limbs, which acts like a spring to store and then release energy, is composed of two layers made of different materials.

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"Bioceramics power the mantis shrimp's famous punch", MachPrinciple, October 23, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Bioceramics-power-the-mantis-shrimp-s-famous-punch

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