Tom shelled the shrimp.

Those are all shrimp.

We have eco friendly shrimp.

And this is a spearing mantis shrimp, or stomatopod.

So he had a handful of shrimp, maybe seven or eight shrimp, and all those other animals on the deck of the boat are bycatch.

The shrimp that falls asleep is carried away by the current.

The shrimp that falls asleep is swept away by the current.

The shrimp that falls asleep is carried away by the current.

Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans known as brine shrimp.

So this is the true cost of a shrimp dinner, maybe seven or eight shrimp and 10 pounds of other animals that had to die in the process.

So, mantis shrimp come in two varieties there are spearers and smashers.

Ah, the first time that I made love to a rock shrimp ...

And this just drags over the bottom, in this case to catch shrimp.

This chick is like a shrimp I like everything about her but her head.

But we can never have any eco friendly all you can eat shrimp buffet.

BL You see this white V shaped mark on the back of the shrimp?

That's a mussel you can find in the waters out here, and the threads holding it to a rock are timed at exactly two years, they begin to dissolve.

This particular shrimp, we've dubbed it the Jurassic shrimp, it's thought to have gone extinct 50 years ago at least it was, until the census discovered it was living and doing just fine off the coast of Australia.

This is a recording I made of a mantis shrimp that's found off the coast of California.

And mantis shrimp are officially the fastest measured feeding strike of any animal system. So our first surprise.

So, actually, I started working on what's called the mantis shrimp a few years ago because they make sound.

And what he showed in mantis shrimp is that they use what's called a catch mechanism, or click mechanism.

And what these shrimp are trying to do is actually harvest the bacteria from the backs of these animals.

And mantis shrimp are called mantis shrimp after the praying mantises, which also have a fast feeding appendage. And I started to think, well, maybe it will be interesting, while listening to their sounds, to figure out how these animals generate very fast feeding strikes.

Now, the other type of mantis shrimp is the smasher stomatopod, and these guys open up snails for a living.

This photograph I made of the fisherman holding the shrimp that he caught after towing his nets for one hour.

So this is a mantis shrimp. There are the eyes up here, and there's that raptorial appendage, and there's the heel.

You can see this shrimp is harassing this poor little guy here, and he'll bat it away with his claw. Whack!

Similar reports of murdered community leaders who stood in the way of shrimp farmers come from Thailand, India, Honduras, Ecuador and Brazil.

So the next and final question was, well, how much force does a mantis shrimp produce if they're able to break open snails?

The dish usually contains a meat, usually Beef, chicken, Lamb, mutton, or shrimp however, it can also be prepared in a vegetarian style.

And while I was struggling to figure out how and why mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, make sound, I started to think about their appendages.

Earlier shuttle missions included grade school, junior high and high school projects some of these included ants, stick insect eggs and brine shrimp cysts.

And then we did a series of calculations, and what we were able to show is that these mantis shrimp have to have a spring.

I was interested in what was going on in the bag, the bag on the toy store shelf where those shrimp sat in suspended animation indefinitely.

In a five year period in the 1990s, over 100 local community members and activists were killed protesting shrimp farm encroachment and mangrove loss in Bangladesh.

It's a shrimp like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.

This was a small net that was being used in Mexico to catch shrimp, but the way it works is essentially the same everywhere in the world.

I bite into an egg roll filled with shrimp, cilantro and cream cheese, a Chinese, Mexican, and American combo found along this little part of the border.

Acaraje, a Brazilian food from Africa, is a ball of caupi bean dough, onions, and salt, fried in palm oil and served with shrimp and a spicy sauce.

And you can see it's just a really spectacular extension of the limbs, exploding upward to actually just catch a dead piece of shrimp that I had offered it.

The next time you dine on sushi or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean think of the real cost.

So this is a potent force in fluid systems, and just to sort of take it one step further, I'm going to show you the mantis shrimp approaching the snail.

Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.

The next thing that happens is the light ends evaporate, and some of the toxic things float into the water column and kill fish eggs and smaller fish and things like that, and shrimp.