🦐 Sounds of the sea: snapping shrimp 🤔 Did you know the most commonly recorded animal sound during our acoustic monitoring on board Silurian isn’t from whales or dolphins… but from snapping shrimp? Caused by a bubble popping which is created from the snapping of the shrimp's claw to stun prey, this underwater noise can be heard all across the Hebrides. 🔉 Sound plays a vital role in the lives of marine animals, yet so much about the underwater soundscape remains a mystery. That’s why acoustic

Oh snap: How a shrimp closes its claws fast enough to vaporize water

Snapping shrimp is catching a clam underwater ocean. Alpheus randalli hunting a mollusk from a rock. Undersea marine animals in the blue waters on tranquil background.