Hundreds of Baby Whales Have Died in Argentina This Year—and Scientists Are Scrambling to Understand Why
Their leading hypothesis is that the young cetaceans are dying from a bacterial infection, but experts are still trying to figure out why this year's mortality rates are so high. Adults have also been washing up dead, possibly because of a toxic algal bloom
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