Stomatopod in the News

• NY Times: Waikiki Beach's Unloved Backwater Spawns a Record-Setting Crustacean (Mar 5, 2003)
  Murderous, google-eyed crustaceans with barbed spears and razor-switchblade appendages that can shred fish and flesh to ribbons have been captured in the shallow waters off Waikiki. Big ones. Salami-sized. The biggest ever recorded in Hawaii. Panic, however, has not set in.
  (Thanks to res071u8,Erica Bergstrom for pointing out the news)
  
  
• Giant Lysiosquilla spearers invade Hawaii's Ala Wai Canal! (Feb. 14, 2003)
  Health experts are not sure what is causing Mantis Shrimp found in the muck of the Ala Wai Canal to grow larger than their normal size, but one thing is clear, they say: You shouldn't eat anything out of the canal.
  (Thanks to Baron Fujimoto, Benjamine Ignacio, Robert O'Conner, and Howard Chi for pointing out the news)
  
  
• Secrets of the Stomatopod: An Underwater Research Adventure- Aquarius mission recently completed.
• Discovery Channel: Australia's Reef Warriors with stomatopod segment (showing Feb 27 2001 in U.S.A.)
• CRUST: An upcoming full-length feature film featuring Mr. C (a misunderstood boxing mantis shrimp) (Jan 14 2001)
• ABCNews:Tiny Shrimp Terrorizes Aquarium (Jan 5 2001)
• SFGate: Teeny-Tiny Predator Vicious shrimp gorging on aquarium's critters (Jan 4 2001)
• CNN: Killer shrimp stalks waterways of California aquarium (Jan 5 2001)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium: Official Info from the Aquarium (Jan 2001)
• Daily Mirror: Mantis breaks tank!
(Apr 10 1998)
• CNN: Coral reef species forced to go with the flow (Aug 18 2000)
• Discovery Online: Mantis Shrimp see more of the World (Oct 28, 1999)

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