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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They are smaller than a finger, yet louder than jet engines. Snapping shrimp are flooding coastal waters with sound, disrupting marine research. Scientists warn their noise could reshape how oceans ...

The ocean is normally a fairly noisy place, with the sounds of happy dolphins, lonely whales and diesel-chugging ships saturating the undersea world. But climate change may turn up the volume on this ...

Tiny snapping shrimp, not whales, are the ocean's loudest animals, reaching up to 210 decibels with their claw snaps. This intense noise disrupts marine research globally, masking other animal sounds ...

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" – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From birds singing in the Amazon to lions roaring in the Serengeti, animals use their voices to attract mates, defend their territory and coordinate migrations. Below the surface of the water, the ...

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 ...