Small but Mighty: Evolution of the Mantis Shrimp Strike

(Visit: www.uctv.tv/) With speeds of up to 50 miles per hour and accelerations that are comparable to a .22 caliber bullet, the mantis shrimp strike is considered to be one of the fastest movements ever recorded in the animal kingdom. Join Scripps marine biologist Maya deVries as she describes her research on the biomechanics and ecology of this extremely fast strike and tells us how over 150 million years of evolution has led to the amazing diversity of striking behaviors seen across mantis shrimp. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [9/2016] [Science] [Show ID: 30922]

[@johnjackson6870]

I came here after watching a mantis shrimp one punch an octopus lol

[@SemiAmericanGamers]

I came here after watching one punch a hole in a man’s foot hahah

[@okiedokie7282]

What an awesome lecture! Your also a beautiful creature yourself👌👌👌

[@criticalmass6249]

I want a pet mantis shrimpy pretty bad..!!!! :))

[@Curtisthecrumble]

I really like this

[@Arutha258]

Great job! Love this.

[@bequakynskagroupie3751]

Perfect ten on Rate my Professor with major emphasis on the chili pepper part. Never had her as a professor, I just know somehow. ;)

[@Joyexer]

24:18 Uhm thats wrong. 12 is the mass number. So you have 6 Protons 6 Neutrons in C12 and 6 Protons 7 Neutrons in C13. :)

[@jboy2621]

Okay I'm like the only one that looks at mantis shrimp as food. Although I know this is a predator fish which eats even fresh water crayfish in seconds.

[@christinef651]

I'm actually researching this topic at my school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Q_QQ_Q]

graduate school ? or PhD ?

[@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg]

Your researching the evolution of the Mantis Shrimp? Evolution is a scientific impossibility, the mantis shrimp has the most advanced eyes of any creature that’s ever lived! How could a organism evolve hectacular vision, especially from random genetic mutations to DNA? How could a creature evolve a “smasher” that can punch at the speed of a .22 cal bullet by accident? Everything involved with the smashing ability is highly designed to generate such forces! How did the mantis shrimp kill its prey before it evolved the smasher, it had to take millions of years of random genetic mutations to its DNA for it to eventually evolve the perfectly designed smasher, so how did it survive? It had to be made with this ability, just as the octopus was created with the ability to change colors and shape! Genetic mutations do not produce highly specialized abilities!

[@darklightkeyje9648]

Some people watch this because
they
want to educate themselve
Some do it because they like documentarys
And i do it because im bored as hell

[@williamzaniboni2248]

I'm an undergrad. Senior at the University of Massachusetts Boston double majoring in Environmental Science/Biology. My dream is earn acceptance in this institution's Ph.D. program in Marine Biology. My dream is to study under this woman, (or other marine bio faculty at Scripps).

[@tylerbuckingham7411]

William Zaniboni hey are there only 2 types of mantis speared or smasher ?

[@obliteratordeathcon4456]

@@tylerbuckingham7411 he said marine biology. he just wants to study mostly on mantis shrimp doesn't mean he only want to studies on mantis shrimp

[@metalEric69]

@@tylerbuckingham7411 unanswerable. Bad engrish.

[@garethdelux9266]

I don't think this person has ever compressed a Slinky(15:09), a Slinky doesn't react like a spring. A compressed slinky don't do jack yo'll...This birds gotten her Slinky's mixed up with her springs, or her compression's mixed up with her extension's.
Damn, all that ejamaction gone to waste.
Should have studied "things to make analogies with", although that'd be another $80,000 and another four years down the gurgler.

[@criticalmass6249]

😆😄😝

[@danclayberger770]

She needs to hire a announcer with a good voice that doesn't squeak.,.,.,.,.

[@mevan883]

You would have to get a very strong aquarium I have seen videos of them breaking glass, but she did say that in the question and answer part.

[@bmnp]

Sorry if it sounds rude. But honey, please don't laugh like this when you're representing. It's not funny. It rather is pretty annoying and destractive. Especially when you do that every minute or so...

[@dummbobqqqqq]

And it's actually pretty rude to call someone honey you don't know. I did not mind her laughter.

[@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg]

She’s giggling because she knows evolution is a joke, it’s scientifically impossible! If you believe that the mantis shrimp “evolved” hexagonal vision from millions of years of random genetic mutations to its DNA you’re absolutely insane! It’s like looking at an octopus, and thinking that it evolved the ability to change colors and the texture of its skin, all from random genetic mutations to its DNA over the course of millions of years! What kind of random genetic mutation can create new DNA 🧬 to be encoded in an organism to give it different abilities? None, therefore evolution is impossible!

[@tallinofficeralexander8363]

you get annoyed too easy

[@mr.dudemeister7321]

@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg lol, according to your logic, science is also impossible! And if science is scientifically impossible, then evolution being scientifically impossible is also impossible! And what does this show? It shows that your argument is rubbish. Mutations occur within our DNA all the time. That's essentially what cancer is. How would life, which is constantly mutating DNA, not change features dependent on the DNA? These features would then be evident, which is what we see in various animals and their features. But no! Impossible, right?

[@mr.dudemeister7321]

I took it as she's just nervous. I know I'd be nervous. She did a good job imo