Tsunami drives species 'army' across Pacific to US coast

[jpak]

Source: BBC

Scientists have detected hundreds of Japanese marine species on US coasts, swept across the Pacific by the deadly 2011 tsunami.

Mussels, starfish and dozens of other creatures great and small travelled across the waters, often on pieces of plastic debris.

Researchers were surprised that so many survived the long crossing, with new species still washing up in 2017.

The study is published in the journal Science.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41427691

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[CatWoman]

1. ...

[Faux pas]

2. It is astounding

that they made it so far! for their survival skills.

[Bayard]

3. So where's Godzilla?

[dhill926]

4. well, we could use some starfish...

on the SoCal coast. All of ours disappeared a couple years ago.