Warm waters bring a new friend to local beaches here. The article is subscriber based so I cannot provide a link
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or the first time in 30 years or so, a poisonous sea snake has been spotted on a Southern California beach, drawn far north of its usual habitat by what naturalists think are the warming ocean waters because of El Niņo.
A yellow-bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus, was found Friday at the high tide line at Silverstrand Beach in Oxnard by a surfer, according to officials at the Heal the Bay organization and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
It’s the first known report of the species in Ventura County, and the northernmost record along the Pacific Coast of North America, they reported.
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