“Right now, you can go diving off the Monterey pier and see spiny lobsters,” said Van Houtan. “They are a subtropical species that are normally found down in Baja. It’s absurd to see them up here.” (Less absurd, but considerably more dangerous, is the fact that warmer waters are also encouraging juvenile great white sharks to linger in the area.) At the Bodega Marine Lab, scientists documented thirty-seven species that had never been found so far north before. Bull sharks have been hanging out off the coast of North Carolina, five hundred miles north of their habitat in Florida. Lobsters have
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