The mystery of 130 massive dead seals in the world's deepest lake

Discovering about 130 mass death seals, drifting along Lake Baikal's shore, made many people anxious and tried to find the mysterious cause.

Recently, researchers found that about 130 seals drifted ashore on Baikal, the world's deepest lake in southern Siberia.

The unusually large number of seals caused the authorities to enter, deciding to investigate the cause of this strange phenomenon and the ecological issue in Lake Baikal.

Many seals in Lake Baikal died suddenly in a short time.(Photos: Pinterest).

The seal here is the smallest seal in the world and its appearance in the Baikal region as well as the ancient Siberia is still a mystery. This is a native seal, they are called nerpa Baikal.

Nikola Gudkov, a spokesman for the Russian environment ministry, said: " Over the past few days, about 130 seals have died. We conducted water sampling to determine the possible cause of water pollution. in Lake Baikal ".

However, official results have not been announced yet. Besides, scientists also carried out the biopsy of native seals in Baikal to find out the cause of the "catastrophic" mass death.

Although the population of nerpa Baikal seals has increased in recent years, more than 100 died suddenly in just a few days, causing many people to worry.

It has been suggested that a series of deadly seals may be related to a decline in the number of fish in Lake Baikal due to the "explosion of algae" earlier. However, scientists have not yet confirmed and are looking for the real cause of the sudden death of 130 seals in a short time.

Baikal seals are the smallest native freshwater seal in the world and are only available in Lake Baikal.(Illustration).

Lake Baikal, which accounts for nearly 20% of freshwater reserves on Earth, is a UNESCO world heritage site with an extremely rich flora and fauna with thousands of endemic species. However, Lake Baika has suffered from many adverse phenomena in recent years.

The Baikal seal, the endemic animal in Baikal, is one of the three rarest freshwater seals in the world. They are mostly concentrated in lakes and often travel at short distances.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Baikal seals may be vulnerable to future climate change because they cannot be moved elsewhere.

Many experts estimate that 80% of rare and precious plants and animals, only in Lake Baikal, can be threatened with survival and the impacts of climate change are considered to be one of the causes.