Tropical jellyfish, eels and sea butterflies are pouring into California’s coast, thanks to a ‘warm-water blob’
Marine biologist Jacqueline Sones was strolling along a beach near Bodega Bay in Northern California one foggy summer morning when she spotted an unfamiliar jellyfish bobbing in the surf. Her curiosity turned to shock, however, when she opened a field guide and identified the creature with a white bowl-shaped bell, vivid stripes and long tentacles. “I’d discovered something unprecedented,” Sones recalled Monday. “It was a purple-striped jellyfish.”
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