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Scientists find hundreds of dead sei whales in Patagonia, Chile - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

More than 300 whales have been found washed up in a remote inlet in Patagonia in southern Chile in one of the largest die-offs on record.
Vreni Haussermann of the Huinay Scientific Centre was one of the scientists who made the discovery.
"It was an apocalyptic sight. I'd never seen anything like it," Ms Haussermann said.
Scientists launched an expedition to count the animals after 20 sei whales were reported dead in April.
They were beached in an extremely remote region some 2,000 kilometres south of the capital, Santiago.
When researchers flew over the region in June, they found the scale of the die-off was much larger.
There were at least 337 dead whales, including the bodies and skeletons of the mammals.
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