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A 7-FOOT SEA creature that washed ashore in Southern California in the US has been identified as a rare species usually found in the Southern Hemisphere.
The creature was identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified rare species.
The University of California Santa Barbara said an intern spotted the stranded fish last week at Sands Beach in the university’s Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve.
The intern then alerted a conservation specialist named Jessica Nielsen at Coal Oil Point.
Nielsen said that she initially thought it was a type of local sunfish and posted photos to the reserve’s Facebook page.
The photos drew the attention of a man named Thomas Turner – an associate professor in UCSB’s ecology, evolution and marine biology department who examined the fish and posted photos to the iNaturalist online community.
Marianne Nyegaard of Murdoch University in Australia saw the photos.
She was the woman who identified the species in 2017 and formally named it Mola tecta, but gave it the hoodwinker moniker because it had somehow escaped scientific recognition.
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Nyegaard said in am email to UCBS that she was reluctant to identify the fish as a hoodwinker because the photos didn’t clearly show distinctive features and because it had turned up so far out of its known range.
She sent specific instructions to California about what to photograph and tissue samples that should be taken.
Turner and Nielsen were glad to help, but first they had to find the fish, which had been moved by the tide.
They walked from opposite ends of the beach and found it several hundred yards from its original position.
Nyegaard said she ended up with a large number of extremely clear photos “and there was just no doubt of the ID”.
Sunfish are odd-looking, flat and somewhat oval with fins that resemble little wings.
According to Thomas, the fish was just over 7 feet long and slightly wider from fin tip to fin tip.
Its dorsal fin was just under 2-and-a-half long. He did not measure the weight.
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Same jihad, different country. The US has since 1983 resettled many Somali refugees in Minnesota. And they’ve had some screening issues with both the first and second generation.
“Al Qaeda’s Somali affiliate has claimed credit for a Saturday suicide bombing that killed 10 in Mogadishu, and says one of the men who carried out the attack was a 22-year-old man from Minnesota known to his friends back home as “Bullethead.”
Abdisalan Hussein Ali, who was born in Somalia but raised in Minneapolis, disappeared from Minnesota in 2008.
…he would be the fourth Somali-American to launch a suicide attack in Somalia.
“That is a fundamental change in how we have seen terrorism [since] the attacks of 9/11,” said Napolitano. Since 2006 as many as 30 young Somali men have left the United States to fight in Somalia. The probe into the youths going to fight overseas in Somalia’s war received increased attention from the FBI and DHS officials after Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia, blew himself up in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia Oct. 28, 2008 in an attack that targeted an African Union intelligence post. A second young man from the Seattle area blew himself up in an attack in 2009.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-shabab-suicide-bomber-somalia-american/story?id=14851524
@Marlowemallow: And some are now joining IS instead. The mainstream media, of course, is ‘puzzled’ about why Somali heritage young people would go to fight in Syria. Because it’s apparently difficult to understand that not everyone views the world as divided into nation-states.
“Refugees began settling in Minnesota after the government of Somalia collapsed in 1991. This isn’t the first time the community has struggled to counter the appeal of violent extremism to the state’s Somalis, but is much more puzzling. Somalis have no national or ethnic ties to Syria and Iraq, a link that helped explain why some went to fight with al-Shabab when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006.
Young men joining that terrorist group felt a nationalistic call to defend their nation against rival state Ethiopia, but many of those drawn to the Islamic State were born in the U.S. and have never been to Somalia, let alone Syria. Still in April, six Twin Cities youth were arrested for attempting to join the Islamic State group. At least one of the men has conspired to travel to Syria since 2014, according to prosecutors.
“As far as we know there is no one profile that brings [together] all these people who are leaving,” says Abdisalam Adam, an imam at Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis. “Some people say, ‘Oh they are the ones who are not doing well,’ or whatever. That’s not true. There are some of them who have the opportunity of working, some are in school.”
Are any bombings not horrific?
@The Guru: all bombing are horrific.
@The Guru: It’s a quote from the police official who is the source for the story. Captain Mohamed Hussein is unlikely to be implying that Islamist bombings are more horrific than any other kind.
Has not Al-Shabab aligned itself with ISIS?
@Warthog: Think that was part of Boko Haram – they became Islamic State in West Africa.
Lovely group of moderate islamists. Respectors of human rights par excellence. A beacon of humanity to the world.
Little Mogadishu,Minnesota, home to high concentration of Somali support for Al-Shabab and ISIS is now represented by Jew-hater Muslim convert Keith Ellison in the house and is running for DNC leadership.
Ellison has tried to thwart the FBI from blocking the money supply from Minnesota to Al-Shabab.
—”The Little Mogadishu neighborhood is represented by Democrat congressman Keith Ellison, who liberals proudly tout as the first Muslim-American Congressman. Ellison – who famously swore his oath of office on a Koran – has been a key player in public attacks on those seeking to expose the threat of radical Islam, including former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert.
Somali terror cell Al-Shabaab has been actively and successfully recruiting in Ellison’s district for years, even producing a slick recruitment video inviting young men in Minnesota to travel overseas and join the jihad. The video has proven disturbingly effective.—-”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/05/the-texas-terror-connection-to-muslim-congressman-keith-ellisons-minneapolis-district/
What a hole
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