Climate Change Will Make North Atlantic Invasion by Pacific Shellfish Possible

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A mass migration that began almost 3.5 million years ago is set to resume over the coming years as the Arctic Ocean continues to warm. In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences write that climate change is creating conditions in the Arctic similar to those found during the warm mid-Pliocene epoch, about 3.5 million years ago, when a number of favorable factors helped many North Pacific mollusk species invade the warming ...