Brittany Williams is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. Dominic McAfee receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and from the South Australian Department for Environment and ...

Woods Hole, MA — In a warming ocean, snapping shrimp might be the acoustic canary in the coal mine. Research published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists today in Frontiers in ...

Ithaca, N.Y. — High-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp, particularly at night, can serve as an effective indicator of coral reef resilience, according to new research published in the ...

Beneath the waves, an unlikely noise is baffling scientists. It is not a submarine or a whale. It is a tiny shrimp. According to science, shrimp is the only creature who is a real noisemaker. Snapping ...

In small burrows along the sea floor, little crustaceans live together in symbiosis, sharing a home as they hide from predators and lay their eggs. Different species live side by side, “easily ...

Juvenile snapping shrimp have broken the acceleration record for a repeatable body movement underwater. The tiny crustaceans can snap their claws with an acceleration of nearly 600,000 metres per ...

Scientists have confirmed their previous observations that rising temperatures increase the sound of snapping shrimp, a tiny crustacean found in temperate and tropical coastal marine environments ...