An unsettling smell greeted waking residents of a city in Argentina who were aghast to discover that thousands of dead fish had washed ashore overnight.
The strange scene took place at a lagoon in the city of Santa Rosa earlier this week and had some people worried that the fish had perished due to some kind of pollutant.
However, an examination of the dead fish by wildlife official determined that the creatures had actually died of natural causes.
Specifically, they say that high temperatures combined a low water levels to reduce the oxygenation of the lagoon to the point that it became uninhabitable for the poor fish.
More on this bizarre story at the Coast to Coast AM website.