This is one of the fastest motions in nature.
Faster than the blink of an eye.
Faster than your naked eye can even see.
These technicolor murder machines are called mantis shrimp, and they might just be the coolest animal in the entire ocean.
And I don't say that lightly.
And if the speed of their clubs, of up to 31 meters per second, isn't impressive enough, the acceleration of those clubs rivals the acceleration of a bullet being fired from a gun.
For a human to break the same shells that a mantis shrimp breaks, we would need a big hammer and a strong swing.
A mantis shrimp can achieve the same thing with an appendage smaller than a small child's pinky finger.
These guys help make up an entire category of the natural world that's only been recently described, the ultra-fast.
Forget about the fastest human, or even something like a cheetah, those don't even register on the ultra-fast scale.
