The pistol shrimp is a small yet powerful marine creature renowned for its loud snapping sound and intense heat generation. This unique ability has disrupted military sonar, inspired clean energy ...

The tiny-but-mighty pistol shrimp can snap its claws with sufficient force to produce a shock wave to stun its prey. So how come the shrimp appears immune to its sonic weapon? Scientists have ...

While describing snapping shrimp to a friend last week, I couldn’t tell her how much of a shrimp’s snapping is about diet and how much is defense. Sometimes I hear a riot of underwater crackling and ...

Meet the pistol shrimp, fastest, and loudest, gun in the sea. These small shrimp, usually about an inch long, use a specialized claw to emit powerful blasts of air that can stun much larger fish and ...

The snapping shrimp, aka the pistol shrimp, is one of the loudest creatures in the ocean, thanks to the snaps produced by its whip-fast claws. And juvenile snapping shrimp are even faster than their ...

Scientists have worked out how alpheidae, also known as pistol shrimp, are able to close their claws so quickly that they can create shockwaves that stun their prey. The rest of this article is behind ...

Even as our species blasts the oceans with a cacophony—sonar, oil drilling, and clanging tanker-engines—humanity is about to make the oceans much quieter. How? A team of marine biologists led by Ivan ...

When it comes to a quick draw, few creatures outgun adult snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis). They stun passing fish and foes with a simple click of a spring-loaded claw, which squirts a ...

A fuchsia pink-clawed species of pistol shrimp, discovered on the Pacific coast of Panama, has been given the ultimate rock and roll name in recognition of the discoverers' favorite rock band Pink ...