Note: This story has absolutely nothing to do with Michael
\n Jackson, although the sea squirt pictured below does look like a Michael
\n Jackson sex toy.<\/em>![]()
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\n from
\n the Boston Globe<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n\n Goopy colonies of a foreign animal called
\n a sea squirt have carpeted a 6.5-square-mile swath of Georges Bank, raising
\n deep fears among biologists that the invader could hurt marine life in
\n one of the most productive fishing areas in the world.<\/p>\n Last year, federal scientists saw only a few small patches
\n of the gelatinous sea squirts on Georges Bank. But on a research voyage
\n earlier this month, they video-recorded dense mats of the animal on the
\n seabed, encrusting scallops in a formation fishermen say looks like fast-spreading
\n pancake batter. <\/p>\n Scientists worry the squirts may be smothering scallops or making the
\n bottom inhospitable to fish eggs, such as those of cod, that need the
\n gravelly
\n sea floor to protect them from predators.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note: This story has absolutely nothing to do with Michael Jackson, although the sea squirt pictured below does look like a Michael Jackson sex toy. width=”302″ height=”272″> from the Boston Globe Goopy colonies of a foreign animal called a sea … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |