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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)--A shrimp with a bright pink claw was recently discovered in the Pacific Ocean and has been named after one of rock's big fish -- the legendary Pink Floyd. The Pink Floyd pistol ...

A HIGH-volume crustacean that produces a sound louder than rock concerts has been named after the band Pink Floyd. Link copied Bookmark The pistol shrimp, Synalpheus pinkfloydi, has a distinctive pink ...

While new animal species continue to be discovered each and every day, perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries as of late is this new species of pistol shrimp that has been named after the ...

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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 ...