The Pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast it creates a bubble that briefly reaches 4,700°C — nearly the surface temperature of the sun — and stuns prey with a flash of light the animal itself cannot see
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When marine acousticians first lowered hydrophones into tropical reefs in the early twentieth century, they reported back a sound like fat sizzling in a pan, a continuous crackle that drowned out almost everything else. Submariners during the Second World War noticed it too, and some of them used the racket as cover. The source turned out to be an animal barely an inch long, hiding in a burrow, firing a claw fast enough to vaporise seawater.
The pistol shrimp cocks its oversized claw like a flin
The pistol shrimp cocks its oversized claw like a flin
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