The tiny snapping shrimp's noisy habits could play a big role in reef ecology. If you put a microphone underwater near the oyster reef in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound, you can hear it: a crisp, ...

Some freshwater shrimp patterns are tied eyes forward and some are tied eyes to the rear. Why? Shrimp in their natural environs drift head down, tail up. Therefore some shrimp are tied "backwards." ...

Knowlton, Nancy and Mills, D. E. K. 1992. "The systematic importance of color and color pattern: evidence for complexes of sibling species of snapping shrimp (Caridea: Alpheidae: Alpheus) from the ...

If you put a microphone underwater near the oyster reef in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound, you can hear it: a crisp, crackling noise that sounds like someone just dumped a ton of Rice Krispies into ...