If you ’re one of those multitude untrusting of swimming in the ocean because you ’ve been traumatize by Jaws , guess what ? Now there ’s one more reason not to go in the water . A venomous sea snake has shown up in Southern California for the first meter in 30 years .
Inhabitat is reportingthat beachgoers in Ventura County recently stumble across a yellow - bellied ocean snake . They did n’t literally trip across it , which is a good thing , because the venom of yellow - bellied sea snakes is aboutten times deadlierthan that of the Egyptian cobra . The species is quite vulgar in certain geographical regions . They ’re off the slide of Africa , floating around the Indian sea , and all up and down South and Central America .
One place they commonly are n’t is in the piss off the state of California . The water is too dusty . But now , with El Niño change ocean currents , warm H2O is surging northwards and bringing sea snakes with it .
Surfers or swimmers need not be too alarmed . The yellow - bellied sea Snake River is highly deadly , but is also one of the most passive creatures one could go for to run into . It eat small Pisces , and its strategy for catching them is to lie motionless near the airfoil of the sea waiting until they get skinny , then biting them .
On estate they ’re even less awful . Their weight unit distribution forces them to lie on their side , and limit their mobility . Do n’t touch them , and they wo n’t advert you . The sea snake that lap up on the beach was place in a bucket of water ( by trained fauna control agent ) , but died shortly after it was found .
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