In New Zealand, government officials are looking into how a species called the “thumb splitter” wound up in the country’s […] ...

Government officials in New Zealand are investigating how an aggressive species known as the “thumb splitter” ended up in the country’s northern coastal waters. Researchers out trapping ...

The invasive species, nicknamed “the thumb splitter” is also known to make a “rumbling growl sound,” officials said.

The Japanese mantis shrimp has been recorded for the first time in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty in Tauranga Harbor. Getty Images/iStockphoto Government officials in New Zealand are investigating ...