Extremely turbulent environments can disrupt the normal procession of material onto a protostar, while intense radiation — from massive nearby stars and supermassive black holes — can blast away the parent cloud, thwarting the formation of all but the most massive of stars.
Unlike its related species, the yellow - bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus), the yellow sea snake subspecies lives in a significantly more hostile
environment — the waters in the gulf are warmer, often
turbulent, and the dissolved oxygen in them occasionally drops to
extremely low levels.