if these two articles are anything to go by,
Norway's Beitstadfjord has
been so severely invaded by monster deep sea jellyfish that, just two years since their
arrival, they have driven out all of the local fish, the innermost arm of the Trondheimsfjord now holds an
estimated 40,000 tonnes of the helmet jellyfish, only a few years after the
fiery red peril first appeared in its waters,
according to Norway's VG
newspaper, Jarle Mork, a researcher at NTNU in Trondheim, caught vast
quantities of the slimy animal in a single trawl, 'we took up 3.5 tons of monster jellyfish in under ten
minutes', he said. 'there was a tremendous amount more than we expected, the
trawler winch was just about to give way', Periphylla periphylla usually lives at depths of 1,000 meters but has in recent decades
began invading the shallow waters of the fjords, 'the helmet jellyfish
is a real beast which has now established itself as the top predator in the
inner Trondheimsfjord', he said, scientists have
prepared a paper for further reading although it appears reading the paper this phenomena
is not unique to just Trondheimsfjord, meanwhile on the other
side of the world,
sea slugs collectively known as nudibranchs are
rising from the deep, spiky sea slugs, known as Hopkins'
rose nudibranch, named after Timothy
Hopkins, are invading northern California's coast in large numbers,
and scientists believe changes in the ocean's temperatures are to blame, the
vibrant, pink sea slugs are common in tide pools near Los Angeles and San
Diego, but now large
numbers of the inch-long rose nudibranch are being found as far north as
Humboldt County, California, researchers from the University of California,
Santa Cruz say that warmer ocean temperatures are driving the sea slugs north
in search of more comfortable waters, a news release from the university
explained that nudibranchs haven’t been this densely populated, at
dozens per square meter, since 1998, 'we haven’t seen anything like it in
years, these nudibranchs are mainly southern species, and they have been all
but absent for more than a decade', said John Pearse, professor emeritus of
ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, the Hopkins' rose nudibranch
sea slug has appeared
in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Bodega Bay over the past couple of weeks,
wait a second, Bodega Bay, I have heard of this place before, I know, The Birds! now this is getting
scary.
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