Last month at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, we received the ultimate Shifting Baselines story in our "Visitor Comments" box:

"I brought my children to the aquarium so they could see the things I saw at the seashore as a child."

Looks like the admonition that "soon you might only be able to see these animals in an aquarium/zoo" has come to pass.

- Debbie Zmarzly