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 ...

Evolutionary theory suggests that individuals should express costly traits at a magnitude that optimizes the trait bearer’s cost-benefit difference. Trait expression varies across a species because ...

When asked which is the loudest animal in the ocean, most people would guess it’s a whale — maybe a sperm whale which clicks at an ear-rattling 230 de.

The snapping shrimp sound is known to be a major biological noise source of ocean soundscapes in coastal shallow waters of low and mid-latitudes where sunlight reaches. Several studies have been ...

The common snapping turtle is one of the most well-recognized terrapins in existence, and that’s in part due to the fact that its habitats spread from Nova Scotia in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in ...

A group of physicists debating the logic of Marvel movies kick-started a research project that resulted in a new understanding of just how extreme the motion of snapping your fingers is. They were ...