The mysterious animal deaths continue to pile up.
This time, authorities in Maryland are investigating after about two million fish washed up in Chesapeake Bay.
It’s just the latest in a string of baffling animal deaths reported around the world. The growing list of casualties includes birds, fish, and crabs coming up dead in Arkansas, England, Sweden, and as far away as New Zealand.
And while theories of pending apocalypse have been bandied about, officials have a simpler explanation for the latest mass die-off in Maryland: Cold weather.
“Natural causes appear to be the reason,” the Maryland Department of the Environment said in a news release. “Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.”
This plague coming upon us foreshadows the end of the world ..