image: Japanese mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis), barnacles (Megabalanus rosa), and sea anemones on a tsunami buoy washing ashore on Long Beach, Washington in February 2017. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 29 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.T. Carlton at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Tsunami-driven rafting: Transoceanic species dispersal and implications for marine biogeography." view more
Credit: Nancy Treneman