
Pistol Shrimp: The Underwater Gunslinger with a Sonic Weapon
The pistol shrimp may be small—just a few centimeters long—but it wields one of the most powerful weapons in the animal kingdom: a superheated sonic snap. With a specialized claw that shuts at lightning speed, this tiny marine creature generates a cavitation bubble that momentarily reaches temperatures of nearly 4,800°C—hotter than the surface of the…