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In rare sightings, venomous sea snakes seen on California beaches (El Nino)
Everyone has high hopes that an El Niño will bring drought-plagued California some welcome relief. But one sign of the global event is an unwelcoming yellow-bellied intruder: the yellow-bellied sea snake to be exact.
Heal The Bay, a Southern California environmental group, is sounding the alarm about the highly toxic ocean traveler being twice found late this week on the Silver Strand, a beach in Oxnard — the first sightings in 30 years.
With what the group calls “some of the most poisonous venom in the world,” the exotic species is descended from Asian cobras and tiger snakes from Australia and can stay on land for more than an hour.
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Heal The Bay, a Southern California environmental group, is sounding the alarm about the highly toxic ocean traveler being twice found late this week on the Silver Strand, a beach in Oxnard — the first sightings in 30 years.
With what the group calls “some of the most poisonous venom in the world,” the exotic species is descended from Asian cobras and tiger snakes from Australia and can stay on land for more than an hour.
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http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/In-rare-sightings-venomous-sea-snakes-seen-on-6575229.php
First more great whites, and now deadly sea snakes!? Damn you, El Nino!
(Well, on second thought, I'll take the sharks and snakes if we get snow...
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