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A warm-weather plague killed more than half of this endangered species in three weeks
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A warm-weather plague killed more than half of this endangered species in three weeks

Warm, wet weather triggered the unprecedented die-off of imperiled saiga antelope, scientists say. And climate change may make such conditions even more likely.

Strange weather triggered bacteria that killed 200,000 endangered antelope

Over a three-week span in 2015, more than 200,000 saiga antelope suddenly died in Kazakhstan. The animals would be grazing normally, then dead in three hours. A new study points to heat and humidity.

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