You know how a tornado transports killer sharks in that incredibly horrible and not even particularly funny Sharknado movie? Something like it is possible. Perhaps the biggest shock of all: less than thirty years later this particular locust species went completely extinct. Old Al described the phenomenon as if it were the size of the Milky Way. Based on estimations, that means there were likely 3.5 trillion insects blanketing the area for five days. The swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts covered 110 miles of land. Referred to as “Albert’s Swarm”- because a guy named Albert saw it-the largest known plague of locusts descended on Nebraska in 1875.Unfortunately for jellyfish and humans alike, this is a fairly common occurrence.

In 2013, a massive power plant was shut down in Sweden. For example, in 1989, four million jellies were removed from a nuclear facility in India. For as long as there have been power plants that use ocean water for cooling, there have been jellyfish clogging intake pipes-even forcing shutdowns. In fact, depending on where you live, you may be able to blame jellyfish for a power outage. In the mesopelagic alone-the upper 200 meters of the ocean-there are 83,775,659,630 pounds of jellyfish worldwide. That’s another way of saying there are a freaking ton of jellyfish in the ocean. In 2003, a research team observed a single female moon jellyfish in Tokyo Bay releasing 414,000 planulae, or young jellyfish, over a 7 day period.Kaiserliche Franziskische Akademie, 1775-1779 Wellcome Collection Other Notable Animal Invasions The second plague in Egypt. They were- dun, dun, dunnnn-poisoned! The fact they flock together in the thousands-and all fed on krill or sardines tainted by the toxic microalgae-is what made that fateful night feel like the end of the world. So, the sooty shearwaters didn’t get lost in the fog.

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