{
  "id": 17996804,
  "title": "Life on the move in a changing Chesapeake Bay",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/life-on-the-move-in-a-changing-chesapeake-bay",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T17:20:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-life-chesapeake-bay.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In 2025, a local crabber reached out to professor Romuald Lipcius with some news: He'd been catching stone crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Native to Florida, the species had reached its northernmost documented occurrence to date. News got out, and William & Mary's VIMS & Batten School were flooded with additional sightings from the public. Some were legitimate; many were mistaken identities.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}