Fisherman hooks 'giant' mantis shrimp in Florida

Steve Bargeron via FWC

Fisherman Steve Bargeron caught what appears to be a large mantis shrimp from a Fort Pierce, Florida dock.

Steve Bargeron via FWC

Fisherman Steve Bargeron caught what appears to be a large mantis shrimp from a Fort Pierce, Florida dock.

Steve Bargeron via FWC

Fisherman Steve Bargeron caught what appears to be a large mantis shrimp from a Fort Pierce, Florida dock.

Silke Baron via Wikimedia Commons

The peacock mantis shrimp

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Mantis shrimp

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Mantis shrimp pile upon each in a water tank at a seafood market in Hong Kong on May 3, 2014.

Roy L. Caldwell, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

A female Odontodactylus Scyllarus mantis shrimp.

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Undated photo of mantis shrimp found in Ala Wai Canal in Waikiki, Hawaii.

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