Tag: "warming waters"

Humbold squid washed ashore - Wikipedia

Is the Predatory Jumbo Squid Migrating North?

The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project announced in late September that two dozen jumbo, or Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) were recently tagged off Grays Harbor, WA. Stanford, NOAA and WDFW colleagues acoustically tagged these immense squid for the first time ever.

Damselfish in coral scene - NOAA's Coral Kingdom Collection, Photographer: David Burdick

A Different Kind of Global Warming Threat for Marine Life

Marine life is suffering the consequences of global warming in many different ways. Not only is it threatened by the changing environment, loss of habitat, species migration as a response to the changing habitat, but it seems warmer waters also changes some fishes behavior, making them easy prey.