Giant shrimp captured - An 18-inch-long crustacean with shrimp-like features was caught from the water by a Florida fisherman during a nighttime fishing from a Fort Pierce dock this week, Weather.com reported.
According to multiple Giant Shrimp Captured news, Steve Bargeron, was fishing on the dock - in the coastal city almost a two-hour drive from Miami - where the creature was snagged, when he took the photos of the water animal and shared them with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Service. The said photos were then posted by FWS on its Facebook page, and already earned 11,112 shares as of latest count.
"Steve said the massive thing was about 18 inches long and striking its own tail, so he grabbed it by its back like a lobster," FWS wrote along with the snaps of the giant shrimp captured. "Scientists think it may be some type of mantis shrimp (which are actually not related to shrimp, but are a type of crustacean called a stomatopod), and continue to review the photos to identify the exact species."
If the giant shrimp captured turns out to be a mantis shrimp, then the Florida fisherman had just caught what the online comic The Oatmeal, describes as "one of the most creatively violent animals on Earth."
USA Today even reported cases where mantis shrimps break aquarium glass using their claws when they dig in an aquarium corner and encounter glass. Mantis shrimps reportedly have deadly limbs that can hit a prey 50 times faster than the blink of an eye and with a blow that equals the speed of a .22 caliber bullet, the Baltimore National Aquarium oceanographers noted.
The giant shrimp captured was reportedly about as long as the arm of the fisherman who caught it and noted the powerful strike of its tail. Mantis shrimps mostly grow around 2 to 7 inches long, although exceptionally huge ones discovered measured 12 to 15 inches long.
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