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Worst die-off of a single species in the modern era discovered — and 'the blob' was to blame

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4 million common murre ( Uria aalge) were wiped out by a brutal marine heat wave known as "the Blob " It killed an estimated 4 million murres — half of Alaska 's murre population.

The die-off was four to eight times larger than initial estimates, making it one of the largest single-species mortality events ever documented.

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