Squid Invasion: Outside The Realm Of Normal!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 00:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
I think this may be the best pop-sci treatment of the jumbo squid invasion that I've seen yet. Go, Christian Science Monitor! For example, most invasion articles don't take the time to explain the nuanced history of the squid's presence in California, but here we learn: When scientists dug through historical records, they discovered that the squid's northward advance wasn't entirely unprecedented. There were accounts from the 1930s of the creatures in Monterey Bay. But never in numbers comparable to what scientists observed now – schools many hundreds strong. And no one had ever seen them as far north as Alaska. read more