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 ...

Ithaca, N.Y. — High-frequency sounds produced by snapping shrimp, particularly at night, can serve as an effective indicator of coral reef resilience, according to new research published in the ...

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.

A new effort to monitor the seas by sound says, resoundingly, yes. The ocean—especially busy places such as coral reefs—can ...

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 ...