A very exciting discovery! https://www.chinookobserver.com/news/local/pacific-snake-eel-rescued-hundreds-of-miles-north-of-home/article_fe5869be-4767-11e9-9a11-5fa1c06ad1c3.html TLDR: A species of snake eel typically found in Peru with a maximum northern range limit of Northern California, has bee…

Cool-e-o!! Thanks for posting this, and welcome to the forums! Maybe a little ominous to, if indicative of broader trends…

what an amazing creature and find! agree w/ @jdmore that it’s maybe a little ominous too :( Thanks for sharing @phelsumas4life , welcome to the new forum!

Yea my first thoughts were if this behavior was indicative of climate based temperature changes within the waters off our coast. I would hope not, but let’s face it the reality is that something in the environment changed and enabled our snake-eel friend to survive that far north.

If you are not allowed to see it [451: Unavailable due to legal reasons -General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)] try this https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=en&tl=nl&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chinookobserver.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpacific-snake-eel-rescued-hundreds-of-miles-north-of-home%2F…

The guy who rescued it is my neighbor and his assistant is a member of iNat. I should pester them for a report…

[image] phelsumas4life: Yea my first thoughts were if this behavior was indicative of climate based temperature changes within the waters off our coast. I would hope not, but let’s face it the reality is that something in the environment changed and enabled our snake-eel friend to survive that f…

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