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Published online 4 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030804-1
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Toxic algae suspected in whale death.
Red tide's poison may have killed a dozen humpbacks in North Atlantic.
A deadly alga is the leading suspect in the mass death of humpback whales around 150 miles off Cape Cod, say marine experts.
Carcass sightings suggest that at least 12 whales, mostly humpbacks, have died in the Georges Bank area, making it one of the worst known mass fatalities.
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