Ocean Explorers - Mantis Shrimp
Fight your way to these mantis shrimp resources:
- (Featured in lesson) watch a mantis shrimp cracking the shell of a hermit crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Li1k5hGBE
- Watch a mantis shrimp build a burrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8okxyyt9mY
- Learn more about mantis shrimp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jam1x5ki4
- Meet some amazing scientists and learn about the physics involved in a mantis shrimp punch: https://www.pbs.org/video/mantis-shrimp-punch-at-40000-fps-cavitation-physics-zwmz7t/
- Want to learn about some other types of mantis shrimp? Watch this ghost mantis catch a fish twice its size: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm1ChtK9QDU
- Watch an artists draw a peacock mantis shrimp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnd8i9ypvd0
- Podcast: Learn about how scientists get funding for their research (in this case a mantis shrimp fight club) https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/21/533840751/episode-779-shrimp-fight-club