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An adaptation 150 million years in the making

Just how do Snapping Shrimp snap? This was the question plaguing scientists who set out to uncover the mysterious mechanisms producing big biology in tiny crustaceans. Graphical abstract of slip joints in snapping shrimp [Credit: Rich Palmer, University of Alberta]"All we've known until now is the endpoint of these super snapping claws," said Rich Palmer, biological science professor at the University of Alberta and senior author on a...

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