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Antish shrimp are well known for their powerful punch, a punch strong enough to crack aquarium

glass, but they also have incredible technicolor vision.

They can see in 12 different colors, they can see different forms of polarized light, and they

have some very bright and

flashy colors on different parts of their bodies that they can display to each other.

Nick Roberts, a sensory biologist at the University of Bristol in the UK. Roberts and his colleagues

investigated how the mantis shrimp create those flashy polarized signals by examining their shells

with an electron microscope.

And they found that unlike the polarizers in our sunglasses, our cameras, and our LCD screens,

the mantis shrimp use a completely novel way of polarizing light.

And their method? It doesn't require the material to be as thick to be effective,

meaning the polarizers

are actually incredibly thin, 500 times thinner, in fact, than the ones we've got.

Like many cases of biomimetic inspiration, nature has had 50-odd million years to do its research

and development and has come up with all sorts of solutions that we've never thought of.

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