https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2017-09-07...
The U.S. Forest Service estimates 6.3 billion dead trees were still standing in 11 Western states in 2015, up from 5.8 billion in 2010.
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When Planet X entered the inner Solar System in late 2002 - early 2003, it was not just the Earth that reacted, as it did with an increase in earthquakes, volcanism and extreme weather, the animal life on Earth also started showing signs of the approaching monster.
The most noticeable symptoms were:
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Crazy Animal Behaviour
Reports of crazy animal behaviour have included sheep that charged a farmer’s wife off a cliff, deer attacking a car and rabbits biting pedestrians. Spiders have spun webs over whole fields and caterpillar larvae have covered whole trees in silk.
As usual, the Zetas explain the true causes:
http://www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t154.htm (Jan 11th 2003)
Animal behavior also has been noted as almost crazed, where animals normally passive and seeking to avoid confrontation will attack with provocation, or fly in the wrong direction during migration. This is due to signals the animals or insects get from the core of the Earth, signals not known to man, but nonetheless there. [……] Spiders weaving webs to an extreme so that acres are covered under webs, get noted, but the base behavior is normal for a spider. EOZT
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Confused Animals
Other erratic behaviour among animals included a seeming loss of direction with whales and dolphins swimming inland and stranding themselves on beaches.
Unreliable Compasses (March 28th, 2009)
The compass is unreliable for the past few years, and lately has gotten very extreme in its variance. Many animals and insects have a biological compass, recording during migrations where that compass laid, and when taking a return trip relying on the recording to guide them back. If the Earth's N Pole swings away from the press of Planet X, which is increasingly pointing its N Pole at the Earth, then these animals are not given correct clues and aim for land or up a river. Sad to say, this will only get worse as the last weeks and the pole shift loom on the horizon. EOZT
Are due to the Magnetic Clash (July 1st, 2006)
The compass anomaly, swinging to the East, is indicative of the Earth adjusting to the approach of Planet X and the clash of their magnetic fields. The change is indicative of a clash in magnetic fields as Planet X comes ever closer to the Earth, their fields touching. It is the combined field that Earth must adjust to, and continue to adjust to, not the exact position of the N Pole of Planet X within these fields, and the Sun's magnetic field enters into the equation too. This dramatic change, noted by a conscientious tracker, checking dual compasses daily for years, indicates that the Earth is trying to align side-by-side with Planet X, bringing its magnetic N Pole to point toward the Sun, as Planet X is currently doing in the main. These adjustments are temporary, and change about, as magnets can make dramatic and swift changes in their alignment with each other. Put a number of small magnets on a glass, with iron ore dust, and move a large magnet about under them, and watch the jerking about they do. Are we saying the Earth's magnetic field is going to get more erratic in the future, dramatically so? There is no question that this will be one of the signs that will come, yet another not covered by the Global Warming excuse. EOZT
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Large fish and bird kills
Hundreds, if not thousands, of these events have taken place with the frequency increasing year on year. Poignant examples include the 20 tonnes of dead herring which washed ashore in Norway and 1200 pelicans found on a beach in Peru.
Earth Farts (January 9th, 2007)
We have explained, in great detail, that the stretch zone does not register great quakes when rock layers pull apart and sink, as this is a silent Earth change. Nancy has carefully documented breaking water and gas mains, derailing trains, dislocating bridge abutments, mining accidents, and outbreaks of factory explosions, showing that these have occurred in rashes on occasion, when the rock layers pulled apart. [……] In September-October of 2005, a smell of rotten eggs was sensed from LA to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior to the New England states and throughout the South-Eastern US. We explained at that time that this was due to rock layers being pulled apart, releasing gas from moldering vegetation trapped during prior pole shifts, when rock layers were jerked about, trapping vegetation. We explained in March of 2002 that black water off the coast of Florida was caused by this phenomena. Do these fumes cause people to sicken, and birds to die? Mining operations of old had what they called the canary in a birdcage, to warn the miners of methane gas leaks. Birds are very sensitive to these fumes, and die, and this is indeed what happened in Austin, TX. Were it not for the explosions associated with gas leaks, it would be common knowledge that gas leaks sicken, as the body was not structured to breathe such air for long. EOZT
Zetatalk Explanation (January 8th, 2011)
Dead fish and birds falling from the sky are being reported worldwide, suddenly. This is not a local affair, obviously. Dead birds have been reported in Sweden and N America, and dead fish in N America, Brazil, and New Zealand. Methane is known to cause bird dead, and as methane rises when released during Earth shifting, will float upward through the flocks of birds above. But can this be the cause of dead fish? If birds are more sensitive than humans to methane release, fish are likewise sensitive to changes in the water, as anyone with an aquarium will attest. Those schools of fish caught in rising methane bubbles during sifting of rock layers beneath them will inevitably be affected. Fish cannot, for instance, hold their breath until the emergency passes! Nor do birds have such a mechanism. EOZT
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https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2017-09-07...
The U.S. Forest Service estimates 6.3 billion dead trees were still standing in 11 Western states in 2015, up from 5.8 billion in 2010.
The numbers come from the agency's annual Forest Inventory Analysis Program and include trees at least 5 inches (127 millimeters) in diameter.
The agency estimates roughly 20 percent of the standing dead trees in 2015 were killed by bark beetles. Other causes of death include drought, disease and fire. The proliferation of standing dead threes has forced firefighters to change tactics, sometimes cutting containment lines farther from the flames to avoid the danger of injury or death from falling trees.
A state-by-state look at the numbers of standing dead trees in 2015 compared with previous available totals:
Arizona: 275 million, up 4.8 million since 2010
California: 499 million, up 29.5 million since 2010
Colorado: 834 million, up 153.2 million since 2010
Idaho: 814 million, up 76 million since 2010
Montana: 1.2 billion, up 159 million since 2010
Nevada: 145 million, up 1 million since 2012
New Mexico: 341 million, up 20.4 million since 2013
Oregon: 571 million, down 7.7 million since 2010
Utah: 436 million, up 30.9 million since 2010
Washington: 593 million, up 24.3 million since 2011
Wyoming: 619 million, up 8.8 million since 2012
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Source: U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory Analysis Program
Hundreds of Songbirds Drop Dead in Sweden (Nov 2017)
Mikael Lind first thought it was rocks or gravel on the road.
After slowing down and coming closer, he finally realized that the strange darker spots on the road were actually dead songbirds.
He then decided to step out of the car, started walking around, and counting hundreds of carcasses.
Sources
http://strangesounds.org/2017/12/hundreds-of-birds-fall-from-the-sk...
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasternorrland/ovantade-synen-hun...
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2017/nov/29/second-m...
Express News Service | Published: 29th November 2017 02:31 AM |
Last Updated: 29th November 2017 08:35 AM
CHENNAI: Unprecedented scenes were witnessed on Tuesday at Adyar river mouth where thousands of fish washed ashore dead. This is the second mass fish kill incident being reported within two years at the same spot, which throws up several questions on the ability of Adyar Creek to support life.
The last incident happened on December 31, 2014. It was a rude shock for fisherfolk dependent on Adyar estuary for livelihood. Among the dead, five species were spotted and the majority were mullet with eggs inside.
Though the exact reason for the disaster is yet to be ascertained, local fishermen said it was because of high influx of raw sewage from upstream residential localities, industries and hospitals. The State fisheries department has written to Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture (CIBA) to investigate. Even scientists from Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) visited the spot and collected fish and water samples for toxicology study.
CIBA director K Vijayan ruled out the possibility of mortality being caused by any pathogen-induced disease. “If it is any disease, the death would have been slow. This is clearly a case of fish suffocating to death due to reduction in oxygen and it would be either due to substantial increase in pollutants entering the water body or low tide minimising the sea water ingress into estuary or a combination of both. Our animal health division is doing sampling, but it would be difficult to establish the true picture since the samples were collected almost 5-6 hours after the mass kill occurred. Sea water might have entered in between diluting the nutrient concentration in the water,” he said.
S Palayam, president of Ururkuppam Fishermen Cooperative Society, said the fish began dying in lumps from the wee hours of Tuesday. “I went to the river mouth to lay my net around 4 am and by then, I found scores of fish washed ashore dead. Due to some disturbance in the sea, lots of fish came close to shore. Fishermen on Monday had dream catch. During high tide, the fish from the sea must have moved inside the estuary, which is considered safe. But at the same time, a large quantity of sewage must have been covertly discharged laying a death trap,” he rued.
Besides madavai (mullet), other fish species like oodan (Indian goat fish) and silepi (Tilapia) were also found dead. Joe K Kizhakudan, scientist, CMFRI, said mullets are tolerant to high salinity levels and can survive in both sea and estuaries. “Something has terribly gone wrong. Only a thorough investigation would reveal facts. Pollution is definitely one of the causes.”
http://wxpr.org/post/habitat-loss-leads-loss-90-percent-monarch-but...
Many species of pollinators are in sharp decline in Wisconsin.
Recently, a DNR program was granted more almost $70,000 to aid in helping Monarch butterflies. The grant was to help the insects during their annual trek to Mexico over the winter. The grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore and enhance critical monarch butterfly habitat along the Mississippi River.
But the DNR's Owen Boyle says the populations of the once-common Monarchs have fallen by 90 percent in the last 25 years.
He says habitat loss throughout the monarch's breeding range, which includes Wisconsin, is considered the primary cause of the monarch population's crash....
"...specifically for Monarch butterflies, as most kids learn in school these days, Monarch butterflies need milkweed plants. It's the only thing they can lay their eggs on and what the larvae or caterpillars can eat. The loss of milkweed and the nectar plants that the adults need, your regular native flowering plants, the loss of those from the landscape is what's driving the loss of Monarchs...."
Researchers say as native vegetation is replaced by roadways, manicured lawns, crops and non-native gardens, pollinators lose food and nesting sites necessary for their survival. More information is on the DNR webpage by typing pollinators into the search box. There are several tips for property owners who would like to help out.
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http://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/outdoors/2017/08/30/monarch...
A colorful insect that has long been a source of wonder is now a source of worry.
Monarch butterflies have been admired by generations of humans for their beautiful orange-and-black coloration, the beneficial pollination services they provide and the long migrations they make to Mexico at the end of each summer.
Those migrations are getting underway, which means monarchs will be winging their ways south through Missouri in the weeks ahead. However, recent data indicates seeing one of these colorful insects isn’t as common an event as it used to be.
Studies have shown monarch butterfly numbers east of the Rocky Mountains have declined by approximately 90 percent in the last 20 years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service equated that population drop to a loss of approximately 970 million butterflies during that time span, but the Center for Biological Diversity described the reduction in more sobering terms. It said, in human population terms, the monarchs’ population drop is equivalent to losing every living person in the U.S. except for residents of Ohio and Florida.
This alarming population drop is the reason monarchs have been in the news in recent years here in Missouri and elsewhere. The Missouri Department of Conservation is one of many agencies and organizations throughout the central and eastern U.S. that are involved in efforts to increase habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
The importance of these projects goes far beyond insuring that humans will continue to be able to see pretty butterflies in their flower gardens. Studies have shown the financial benefits provided to U.S. citizens by butterflies and other pollinating insects can be measured in the billions of dollars.
As mentioned earlier, now is when monarch migrations in the eastern U.S. are getting underway. The timing of this annual migration is theorized to be linked to changes in the amount of daylight (photo period) that begin to occur at this time of year. The variabilities of day and night temperatures that take place at this time of year probably also trigger the migrations to Mexico.
One of the big mysteries of the migration is how do monarchs find the same site — a specific area in the mountains of central Mexico — each year. No monarch makes a migratory trip more than once. Since none of the monarchs headed for Mexico have ever made the trip before, how do they end up at the same location year after year? One theory is that monarchs use the earth’s magnetic field to guide them to this specific area. Another theory is that they are guided by the polarization of the sun’s rays.
While these are just theories, it’s a fact that now is the time to see migrating monarchs. Milkweed is a monarch favorite, but they can also be seen around other flowering plants. Although it’s too late to plant a butterfly garden for this year, it’s not too early to start planning one for next year. The Missouri Department of Conservation booklets “Butterfly Gardening and Conservation” and “Milkweeds and Monarchs” have good information on what to plant and how to attract specific butterfly species. These free publications are available at many Missouri Department of Conservation offices.
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Monarch butterfly populations from western North America have declined far more dramatically than was previously known and face a greater risk of extinction than eastern monarchs, according to a new study in the journal Biological Conservation.
"Western monarchs are faring worse than their eastern counterparts," said Cheryl Schultz, an associate professor at Washington State University Vancouver and lead author of the study. "In the 1980s, 10 million monarchs spent the winter in coastal California. Today there are barely 300,000."
Schultz adds, "This study doesn't just show that there are fewer monarchs now than 35 years ago. It also tells us that, if things stay the same, western monarchs probably won't be around as we know them in another 35 years."
Migratory monarchs in the west could disappear in the next few decades if steps aren't taken to recover the population, Schultz said.
Like eastern monarchs, which overwinter in Mexico, western monarchs have a spectacular migration. They overwinter in forested groves along coastal California, then fan out in the spring to lay their eggs on milkweed and drink nectar from flowers in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah. They return to their coastal overwintering sites in the fall.
In the 1990s, residents of coastal California became alarmed that a once common butterfly seemed to be disappearing. The Biological Conservation study indicates that those concerns were justified. The researchers combined data from hundreds of volunteers who have participated in the Xerces Society's Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count since 1997 with earlier monarch counts conducted by amateur and professional butterfly enthusiasts in the 1980's and early 1990's. They then predicted the monarch population's risk of extinction over the next several decades.
Emma Pelton, endangered species conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of western monarchs.
"Scientists, policy makers and the public have been focused on the dramatic declines in the well-known eastern population, yet this study reveals that western monarchs are even more at risk of extinction," Pelton said. "We will need significant conservation action to save monarch butterflies in the West."
The precise causes of the decline in western monarchs are not yet clear, but the loss and modification of its habitat and pesticide use across the West, where monarchs breed, are likely culprits, the researchers said. Climate change and threats to coastal California overwintering sites likely also play a role, they said.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which funded the study, is currently considering whether to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University professor and a co-author on the study, says that "The hard part of being a conservation biologist is documenting species declines. The exciting part is figuring out how to help declining species recover. In the 20th century, we brought bald eagles back from the brink of extinction by limiting use of DDT. If we start now, we can make the 21st century the era in which monarchs return to our landscapes."
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http://www.newsweek.com/monarch-butterflies-have-declined-90-conser...
In the last 20 years, the population of monarch butterflies in the eastern U.S. has declined by 90 percent, greatly worrying environmentalists and researchers. Today, three major conservation groups and a scientist have called on the Fish and Wildlife Service to designate the brilliant orange and black insects as threatened, a move that would provide federal officials with more latitude in efforts to preserve them like designating certain areas as protected.
“We’re at risk of losing a symbolic backyard beauty that has been part of the childhood of every generation of Americans,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups calling for the move, in a release. “The 90 percent drop in the monarch’s population is a loss so staggering that in human-population terms it would be like losing every living person in the United States except those in Florida and Ohio.”
The Center for Food Safety and the Xerces Society, groups dedicated to sustainable food protection practices and insect preservation, respectively, are also asking the feds to act, as is famed monarch scientist Lincoln Brower.
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The butterflies are disappearing in part due to a decline of habitat in the Midwest, specifically the loss of milkweed, the only plant upon which they lay eggs and their larvae feed.
Milkweed is a native plant that provides plenty of value to butterflies, wasps and bees, but is of little use to farmers. In the past, milkweed was spared because the herbicides used by farmers to keep crops healthy were used more sparingly—and in some cases, tilling machines were used to clear weeds.
But in recent years, with introduction of genetically-modified crops like Roundup-ready corn and soybeans that are resistant to traditional herbicides, farmers have begun to spray more and more Roundup—the Monsanto-made chemical—over wider and wider areas.
This practice, as well as the cultivation of 1 million new acres of land in recent years, driven by higher corn and soybean prices, has destroyed milkweed crops, and greatly hurt monarchs, research shows.
Scientists and environmentalist have urged landowners—especially in the Midwest—to plant milkweed to help the monarch. Obviously participation is voluntary at this point. But if, for example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture offered incentives to farmers to plant milkweed, that could be a potential game-changer in the right direction.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/15/c_136755084.htm
Source: Xinhua| 2017-11-15 22:49:17
RIGA, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Environmental experts are investigating the death of several tons of fish that have been washed onto a beach in Latvia's southwestern seaside city of Liepaja this week, local media reported on Wednesday.
About three tons of fish washed ashore on a 1.3 km long stretch of the Liepaja beach, authorities said.
Andris Junkurs, head of resource control at the Latvian State Environmental Service, said that although initially it was thought that the fish had been dumped into the Baltic Sea by some fishermen, this hypothesis had to be ruled out eventually.
The environmental authority's fish control department analyzed satellite images in an attempt to detect the fishing boat that might have dumped an unwanted catch of round goby at sea.
"The examination of the images revealed no unusual maneuvering of deep-sea fishing boats that would be worth paying attention to. So, this hypothesis had to be ruled out," Junkurs explained.
Fishermen catching fish closer to the shore have also been cleared of suspicions, as part of the dead fish washed ashore in Liepaja were too small to be caught in fishing nets.
"We therefore have no reason to believe that a catch has been dumped at sea in this case," Junkurs concluded.
An ichthyologist who was consulted about the unusual find said the fish might have perished in stormy waters as waves smashed them against a rocky surface like breakwater, for instance.
"We are inclined to believe that this has been a natural process," Junkurs said.
Poisoning has been excluded as a possible cause of the mass death of gobies due to the absence of visual signs of poisoning.
Besides, a toxic substance would have killed fish of various species, but there were almost only gobies except for some plaice and cod.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5078689/Thousands-SNAILS-in...
A bizarre video shows millions of snails taking over a popular beach in St. Petersburg Florida.
The entire length of the beach is covered in what looks like black rocks, but are in fact cerith snails.
The filmer wrote online: 'I grew up in Florida and have spent most of my life on the water. I have never seen or heard of this happening before.'
The video only shows about one-quarter of the total invasion of snails.
Cerith snails don't often come onto land. They are usually found on sandy bottoms, flat reefs, or coral rock in warm and temperate areas.
The snails were found south of the parking lot at Fort DeSoto's North Beach. The natural area borders a bird sanctuary and is part of a tidal pool. When the tide went out, it exposed the snails, according to professional photographer Robert Neff.
However, it is also possible the snails also came to the shallow waters because they found food on a beach that was washed up by recent hurricanes, according to Lucy McGinnis, a former research assistant from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.
The entire length of the beach is covered in black shells of cerith snails in St. Petersburg, Florida
The video only shows about one-quarter of the total invasion of snails. The creatures don't often come onto land
Hundreds of dead sea turtles have been found floating off El Salvador's Pacific coast, leaving officials scratching their heads as to what caused the massacre.
Between 300 and 400 dead sea turtles were found floating around seven nautical miles [eight miles] offshore from Jiquilisco Bay yesterday, the environment ministry said on Twitter.
Most of the animals were decomposing when they were found, the ministry said, without giving their species.
'We don't know what caused the sea turtles' death,' the ministry said, adding that laboratory tests would be carried out.
The discovery recalled a similar find in 2013, between September and October, when hundreds of sea turtles were found dead off El Salvador's coast.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5046043/Hundreds-dead-sea-t...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5036665/130-dead-sea...
Published: 16:06 EDT, 31 October 2017 | Updated: 16:54 EDT, 31 October 2017
Around 130 dead seals have washed up on the shores of Russia's Lake Baikal, authorities said Tuesday, as they launched a probe into the latest problem to hit the world's deepest lake.
The Baikal seal is the smallest in the world, and exactly how and when the species colonised the ancient Siberian lake is still a mystery.
'There were about 130 animals found dead' over the past few days, said environmental ministry spokesman Nikolai Gudkov.
'We took water samples to understand whether we can talk of water pollution as the reason,' he told AFP, though results have not yet been processed.
Scientists have also taken biopsies of the animals, he said.
The animal is not endangered and Gudkov said the species' population has actually increased in recent years, growing to around 130,000
Preliminary theories about the die-off did not suggest pollution is the reason, he added.
Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has thousands of endemic species, has been suffering from a string of detrimental phenomena over recent years.
These include depletion of fish stocks, death of endemic sponges and explosion of growth of Spirogyra algae unnatural to the lake which scientists say is caused by pollution
Baikal Seals are an exclusively freshwater species of seal that occur in Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia, near the Mongolian border.
They're mostly confined to Lake, though they travel short distances into rivers that flow into and out of the lake.
The Lake is landlocked, which according to the IUCN could make the seals vulnerable to future climate change since they can't move to alternative habitats.
Future climate change has the potential to reduce the extend and duration of ice that the seals rely on for breeding.
Baikal Seals are an exclusively freshwater species of seal that occur in Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Russia, near the Mongolian border.
Baikal Seals are mostly confined to Lake, though they travel short distances into rivers that flow into and out of the lake.
According to the IUCN, the most recent population figures are of 108,200 in 2013.
Some of the major threats facing the seals include:
http://www.wgnsradio.com/hundreds-of-fish-found-dead-in-the-gateway...
As reported on Monday, a Murfreesboro Parks and Recreation Department staff member discovered a sizable fish kill Sunday morning during his routine morning activities at Gateway Island. The Gateway Island pond is behind Murfreesboro Medical Clinic.
Based on information currently available, it appears that a temporary water quality episode possibly related to a seasonal change and/or rapid water quality change coupled with fish overpopulation, lead to the fish kill.
The fish appear to be goldfish and similar recreational or hobby fish commonly kept in aquariums and backyard landscape ponds. In the past, these types of hobby fish have been released into the Gateway Island pond by the public. As with backyard ponds and aquariums, goldfish and similar fish species can reproduce rapidly and lead to overpopulation of the water system making the population more susceptible to disease and population stress or other environmental stresses like rapid changes in water quality such as oxygen levels or temperature.
This kill is like an event that occurred in 2011 when a fish kill occurred and appeared related to unseasonable hot summer temperatures, fish overpopulation, and a temporary water quality episode.
Octopuses Flee Ocean Onto Welsh Beach (Oct 27)
Over 20 curled octopuses fled the sea onto dry land Friday night in a mysterious phenomenon which has left staff from a local dolphin watching company completely baffled.
Brett Jones, owner of SeaMôr Dolphin Watching Boat Trips, was returning the boat after a sunset trip at 10pm when he first spotted the sea creatures crawling onto the beach at New Quay, Ceredigion, Wales.
"It was a bit like an end of days scenario," he said.
“They were coming out of the water and crawling up the beach. We don’t quite know what’s causing it."
“A friend of mine said it happened the night before and there was about 20 last night.”
This is the first time video footage has captured the animals on a beach.
Sources
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/octopus-crawling-out-s...
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