Rice Krispies? Rain hitting a tin roof? Bacon frying? How about noisy creatures known as snapping shrimp. Warm temperate and tropical coastal waters around the world are teeming with these noisy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern ...

Oregon State University scientist Joe Haxel recorded hours of underwater sound, tracking whales and boat noise. “We brought the data back and started looking through it, and we found an area where ...

It's hard for me to know exactly where I am when I'm in Kansas. There are no landscapes to identify my location, so I am never sure how far it is to the next town. I just know, if I go a little ...

Snap, crackle, hush. Snapping shrimps – which produce ubiquitous crackles that guide fish larvae to reefs – may become quieter by the end of the century. This is a likely outcome of ocean ...

A sea creature less than 2 inches long is one of the ocean's loudest creatures, and research has found that it may only get louder as a result of the oceans getting warmer. The "snapping shrimp" – ...

Do you ever wish you could just snap your fingers and have dinner ready? Well, that dream is kind of a reality for one species of whale. Snapping shrimp are the noisiest creatures in the ocean. They ...

How climate change is altering nature’s sonic landscape. By Emily Anthes Spring in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, in Northern California, is typically a natural symphony. Streams whoosh, swollen with ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Scientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner ...