Every summertime since 2002 , the water system off the West sea-coast die . And then the gargantuan squids come . It ’s all thanks to ball-shaped warming , which causes massive “ dispirited atomic number 8 zones ” off the coast , in which almost everything in the water go off due to oxygen starvation . It ’s already too late to reverse the sea ’s “ George Romero Tribute , ” but it ’s good newsworthiness for the Brobdingnagian Humboldt squids .
The massive squid predators feed off the “ free suffocated food for thought at the edge of that anoxic zone , ” write senior sea psychoanalyst Kate Wing . “ Like a jubilee for cephalopods . ” Fisherman have report suddenhuge numbersof giant calamary appearing off the West Coast in recent twelvemonth . The freak squids are eating all of the hake , considerably know as the fake crab louse in your supermarket sushi , and upsetting the already smash ecosystem further . And nobody knew why … until now .
Says Wing :
regretful signs that the wind of change are blowing and they ’re already affecting the rich formula that govern the ocean . I ’m not ruling out zombie fish .
To take your mind off our bionomic Book of Revelation , here are some precious squid hats , include one by our own frequent commenter PoorMojo , being wear by a cunning computerized tomography :
Giant calamari images from Brian Skerry for PBS and National Geographic . [ Switchboard , from NRDC ]
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