Diverse causes for this macabre phenomenon (pictured above) include expanding squid ranges due to climate change and warming waters, or toxic algae blooms that disorient the squid so they lose their bearings.
Some scientists think it has a more direct cause. It’s possible the squid were following prey and couldn’t cope with being crowded into increasingly shallow waters on a falling tide, said Henk-Jan Hoving, a researcher with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California.
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