The seizure comes as President Donald Trump has declared war on Latin American drug traffickers and designated cartels foreign terrorist organizations.

Snailfish belong to the Liparidae family, and are often described for their large heads, jelly-like bodies, bumpy and loose skin, and their narrow tails. Scientist also classify the species for having a disk on their belly that they use to grip onto larger animals and hitchhike across the ocean.

For all of the natural and human-made hardships the U.S. west coast must endure—earthquakes, droughts, wildfires—it is generally spared hurricanes. Even as two new named storm systems—hurricane Kiko and tropical storm Lorena—currently churn in the Pacific Ocean,

The cold water upwell, which is vital to marine life, did not materialize for the first time on record. Researchers are trying to figure out why.

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core from the Southeast Pacific was examined that reflects the last 8 million years of Earth's history.

Brig. Gen. Joseph “Clete” Goetz, II, commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division

Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean broke the world record for the fastest non-stop and unsupported rowing across the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 30

The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier of boulders was built along part of the beach to slow erosion. The property became a public park where today people hike and fish. The history is fading. But the garbage remains.

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) leads to periods of cooler- and warmer-than-normal waters around the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean. La Niña occurs when water temperatures in this area of the Pacific run at least 0.5°C cooler than normal for several consecutive months. El Niño is the warm-water opposite of La Niña.