Dead seals keep washing up on New England's coast

Seal off coast of Massachusetts.
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Seals are dying by the hundreds off the coast of New England, The New York Times reports.

At least 600 harbor and gray seals have been reported dead or dying on the coast from southern Maine to northern Massachusetts, but officials say the number could be as high as 1,000, per the Times.

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Marianne is The Week’s Social Media Editor. She is a native Tennessean and recent graduate of Ohio University, where she studied journalism and political science. Marianne has previously written for The Daily Beast, The Crime Report, and The Moroccan Times.