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 ...

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 ...

Nature is a wonderful and bottomless source of inspiration for the inventors of our world, and there are so many technologies that have been created after studying creatures and natural processes that ...

This video breaks down the explosive rivalry between the mantis shrimp and the pistol shrimp, two of the ocean’s most ...

With 60-mile-per-hour pincers that create noisy shockwaves capable of stunning or killing their foes, it's no wonder snapping shrimp are sometimes compared to pistols. But being quick on the draw is ...

Shrimp may be small, but some of them can pack quite a wallop. One of the pistol shrimp's claws, for instance, delivers such an explosive amount of force that it creates a shockwave of superhot plasma ...

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 ...

A new species of pistol shrimp — small, burrowing crustaceans with one oversize claw — doesn't live on the dark side of the moon, nor is it a lost soul swimming in a fishbowl. Nevertheless, the ...

A sea creature less than 2 inches long is one of the ocean's loudest creatures, and research has found that it may only get louder as a result of the oceans getting warmer. The "snapping shrimp" – ...

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 shrimp was discovered by ...