Eerie mystery of dozens of dolphins washing up on beaches just days apart

Dolphins have washed up on the beaches of a single city for the second time in a week and no one knows why.

Experts have been left scratching their heads by the mysterious appearance of eight dolphins in the Greater Tokyo Area, local news reports say.

The site has been visited by local official Mibu Saito, who toldVICENews: “I felt sorry for all those weak dolphins that had washed ashore and we still don’t know why they were stranded there”.

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Found near Isumi and Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, the massive mammals were struggling to breathe – four of them were dead.

The living four were returned to the ocean.

The matter is made stranger still by the news that, just one day before, 33 dolphins were found washed up a couple of hundred metres down the shoreline.

Two of these dolphins died despite passer-bys' best efforts to get them into the ocean by rolling their massive bodies down to the shore.

Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science is set to perform autopsies on the dolphins that died.

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The reason behind the deaths has been a mystery in Japan, but it doesn't stop there.

The beloved beasts have been washing up on coats around the globe with research ongoing about what could be causing it.

The USA has had 23 whales wash up dead while, since the start of winter, 910 dolphins have rocked up on France’s Atlantic coast.

The country has since made alterations to its fishing policies.

South Korea too has had an endangered Bryde’s whale wash up dead with no signs of foul play.

The USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as said a number of factors are in play, but globally research continues to try and get to the bottom of why so many of the mammals keep washing up dead.

The Administration has listed everything from boat strikes and the remnants of fishing to changes to the temperatures of the Earth’s oceans as possible factors.

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