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Mantis shrimps can see five different ultraviolet frequency bands & can see polarized light

Of all the eyes in the animal kingdom, MICHELLE STARR at ScienceAlert.com reports, the most complex we know of belong to a bottom-dwelling marine crustacean that spends its life in burrows in rocks and the seafloor.Humans have four photoreceptors, sure. Birds have six – amazing. Mantis shrimps of the order Stomatopoda, the overachieving little wotsits, have…

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