El Nino brings white shark — and sea snake — surge to California
- Leer en EspañolAn El Niño climate pattern typically brings dangerous heat domes and hurricanes to the Pacific but experts have added to the list of threats this year: sea snakes and sharks.
- White sharks - known commonly as great whites - are swimming off the California coast in greater numbers this year thanks to hotter ocean temperatures linked to this year’s supercharged El Niño.
- "We expect to see all kinds of weird tropical things come up with this warm water," Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told USA Today.
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- Leer en EspañolAn El Niño climate pattern typically brings dangerous heat domes and hurricanes to the Pacific but experts have added to the list of threats this year: sea snakes and sharks.
- White sharks - known commonly as great whites - are swimming off the California coast in greater numbers this year thanks to hotter ocean temperatures linked to this year’s supercharged El Niño.
- "We expect to see all kinds of weird tropical things come up with this warm water," Douglas McCauley, director of the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told USA Today.
Sources: The Independent