LURKING in the oceans are creatures that can create balls of plasma almost as
hot as the surface of the Sun, a Dutch researcher has found. No, they aren’t the
stars of a monster movie, but shrimps that live on coral reefs.
Snapping shrimp (Alpheus heterochaelis) have an outsized claw that
they use to fire jets of water at their prey and each other. The noise that they
make pervades the ocean, drowning out the sounds of ships and other animals.
“Submarines can use the shrimp to hide,” says Detlef Lohse of the University of
Twente in the Netherlands.
To…
