A Tiny Fish Loud as a Gunshot
- Danionella cerebrum, a fish species found in river streams flowing down the southern and eastern slopes of the Bago Yoma Range in central Myanmar, is capable of producing a sound as loud as a gunshot.
- It was discovered in 2021 in an irrigation canal flowing from the Bago Yoma mountain range, northwest of Yangon.
- According to a study published in the PNAS journal, it is about 12 mm in size and is capable of emitting sound over 140 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of an ambulance siren or a ....
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