Can you imagine that the loudest animal on the planet isn’t a lion 🦁 whose roar reaches 114 decibels and can be heard 8 kilometers away? It’s not an elephant 🐘 and not even the blue whale 🐋 which produces sounds up to 188 dB underwater. The true record holder is a creature no one expects — a tiny shrimp the size of a finger 🦐 It’s called the pistol shrimp, and it lives in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, as well as near Australia 🇦🇺 and East Africa. But despite its small size, it has a mind-blowing superpower — a claw that snaps shut so fast it creates a bubble. And inside that bubble? A real underwater explosion. 💥 The temperature inside the bubble reaches 4,700 °C, almost as hot as the surface of the Sun! ☀️ The resulting shockwave is 210 decibels — louder than a gunshot 🔫 louder than a jet engine ✈️ That sound can stun or even kill prey instantly, and it’s so powerful that it’s picked up by military hydrophones on submarines ⚓️ This shrimp is invisible on most maps, but its thunder can be heard across oceans 🌊

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