The Pistol Shrimp Is Not Snapping - It's Firing a Bubble Hotter Than the Sun

In 2000, a Dutch research team pointed a forty-thousand-frame-per-second camera at a pistol shrimp and overturned decades of consensus in one afternoon. The snapping sound on coral reefs does not come from claws clicking together. It comes from a cavitation bubble collapsing so violently it briefly reaches temperatures near the surface of the sun and emits a flash of light. This video walks through the fluid mechanics, the biological latch, the WWII sonar interference story, and the sonoluminescence discovery, drawing on the Versluis 2000 (Science) and Lohse 2001 (Nature) papers as primary sources.