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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Julia Musto

El Niño brings white sharks and sea snakes to California

An El Niño climate pattern typically brings dangerous heat domes and hurricanes to the Pacific but experts have added to the list of threats this year: sea snakes and sharks.

White sharks - known commonly as great whites - are swimming off the California coast in greater numbers this year thanks to hotter ocean temperatures linked to this year’s supercharged El Niño.

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