15 Times Nature Wanted To Amaze Everyone But Got Bit Carried Away

Nature will never cease to surprise us with its diversity and incredible living creatures that boast the most outlandish colors. Some of them are so wonderful, they seem to have come from another dimension.

Mantis Shrimp: "Beautiful" and "deadly" are two descriptors you don't typically see attached to shrimp. But the mantis shrimp is in a class of its own. This colorful specimen has earned a reputation for being one of the most fearsome creatures of the deep. Here are 10 facts worth knowing about the pint-sized bruisers. Despite their namesake and relatively puny stature, mantis shrimp aren't shrimp at all. (Neither, of course, are they mantises.) They're stomatopods, distant relatives to crabs, shrimp, and lobsters.