Sorry, Oatmeal. Your precious mantis shrimp – with its ultraviolet visual abilities and admittedly powerful raptorial appendages – is no match for the deadly cunning of a hungry octopus.
https://gizmodo.com/9-animals-that-would-make-great-superheroes-773868690
Via WeirdunderWaterWorld:
In this epic battle, we witness who would win if a mantis shrimp was pitted against a veined octopus. It’s a face to face, eye to eye crusade of the octopus versus the mantis shrimp!
Epic? Please. This is basically a mantis shrimp snuff film. What good is ultraviolet vision if you can’t spot a hungry cephalopod, amirite?
Go team octopus.
[WWW via Smithsonian]
