Dead Birds, Fish And Bears, Oh My: And Now A Whole Bunch Of Crabs Are Dying, Too

The past slew of departed animals dropping from skies and work up on different coastlines (a troubling phenomenon which we’ve heard called, among other things, “Armageddon,” “The Apocalypse,” “A Viral Campaign,” “The End Times” and, our individualized favorite, “The Aflockalypse“) continues today with the discovery of some 40,000 departed lousiness washing up on a nation shore.

As with the full disorderliness of departed fish institute in the Chesapeake Bay earlier, experts are pointing to record low temperatures. The Velvet tearful lousiness – or devil crabs, as they’re also known – are ostensibly dying thanks to the coldest Dec kingdom has modify in 120 years. The picture at left, from The Guardian, shows thousands of departed lousiness dotting the beach.

And here’s something that would intend U.S. pundits conversation over digit another (“How can it be TOO COLD if it’s titled GLOBAL WARMING?” and “Don’t cry over departed seek if you take pork!”) against pictures of adorable, but dead, baby animals:

Coastal warden Tony Sykes said: ‘We venture that status modify and device weather has lured the lousiness towards the shoreline.’

PBSNewsHour is looking into this whole, fascinating, disturbing departed birdlike trend, speaking with a wildlife disease specialist U.S. Geological Survey who mutual that there hit been “at small 16 cases in the terminal 20 eld of large numbers of blackbirds dying in contained areas.” Probable causes so far hit included birds air into digit another at very high speeds after existence afraid and potty by fireworks.

Fish kills are also, apparently, more ordinary than grouping think and are ofttimes caused by manlike beings, what with our way to consume and dump hazardous materials and such.

That, or this is the modify of the whole concern as we undergo it.