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The Deadly Fire of the Pistol Shrimp

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The tiny pistol shrimp should be a character in the video game Street Fighter. When it goes hunting for prey, it shoots water that’s as hot as the surface of the sun.

This incredible video captures the pistol shrimp in action. It’s too bad that the little guy doesn’t yell shoryuken.

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