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 ...

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 ...

They are smaller than a finger, yet louder than jet engines. Snapping shrimp are flooding coastal waters with sound, disrupting marine research. Scientists warn their noise could reshape how oceans ...

Tiny snapping shrimp, not whales, are the ocean's loudest animals, reaching up to 210 decibels with their claw snaps. This intense noise disrupts marine research globally, masking other animal sounds ...

Incredibly loud popping sounds emit from rocky coral off the coast of Brazil, revealing a tiny, hidden crustacean. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration via Unsplash Nature is loud. From ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound. Underwater, there is a soundscape of snapping shrimp, grunting fish, and ...

Some of the noisiest animals in the ocean are actually pretty small. They’re called snapping shrimp and new research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) finds they snap louder as ...

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 ...

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 ...