The pistol shrimp can snap its claw so fast it creates a bubble that momentarily reaches the temperature of the sun and stuns its prey with a shockwave. Despite being only a few centimetres long, the pistol shrimp (also called the snapping shrimp) is one of the most formidable hunters in the ocean thanks not to size or teeth, but to its specialized claw. One of its claws is oversized and uniquely shaped to function like a biological pistol. When the shrimp cocks and snaps this claw shut, it fire
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How a tiny shrimp fires a savage shock wave using just its claw
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