Mantis shrimp and pistol shrimp use astonishing underwater weapons, from bullet-speed punches to sonic shockwaves. Scientists ...

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 ...

Snapping shrimp—also called pistol shrimp—might have the mightiest claws of all creatures in the ocean. With a powerful snap of this spring-loaded appendage, the tiny crustaceans shoot out a ...

We’ve seen the Pistol shrimp snap its claws so fast that you can only see it at 10,000 frames-per-second, but the little guy’s trick is even wilder than just that. A Pistol shrimp can actually snap ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)--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 ...

Even as our species blasts the oceans with a cacophony—sonar, oil drilling, and clanging tanker-engines—humanity is about to make the oceans much quieter. How? A team of marine biologists led by Ivan ...

The fearsome mantis shrimp has many fascinating attributes, most notably its powerful hammer-like rounded claws — technically known as “raptorial appendages” — that it uses to crack open the hard ...