Category Archives: Halloween

The Spawning Dead: Why Zombie Fish are the Anti-Apocalypse

Posted on October 29, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Mollie Ogaz   Imagine you are on the bank of a river or stream in California’s Central Valley. It is just past sunset, leaves rustle overhead, and you feel a tingling along your spine. Suddenly a zombie fish leaps … Continue reading →

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Watering up Halloween, California style

Posted on October 28, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Ghost Writer What better way to spook Californians this Halloween than to appear as a slobbering “Godzilla El Niño.” Or draped in a bedsheet as Godzilla’s opponent, “The Blob,” the amoeba-shaped patch of unusually warm Pacific water blocking storms … Continue reading →

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