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Warming Ocean Is Pretty Great, If You're a Sea Slug

Discovery News, 13 Feb 2015.

Climate change might be destroying corals with ocean acidification and forcing dolphins to change their range, but some species are actually benefiting from it. Warming ocean temperatures off the coast of northern California, for example, have triggered a population explosion of bright pink, inch-long sea slugs in tide pools along California’s central and northern coastline, writes the Discovery Channel News. Read the full story here.

An orange, not pink, sea slug logged on Redmap. Redmap has been getting many sea slug sightings off the east coast of Australia. (Photo: Redmap member: Kate Tinson, NSW).

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