Thousands of seals wash up dead on Russian beach

The bodies of at least 2,500 endangered Caspian seals appeared on the Caspian shoreline of Russia's Dagestan region in recent days, the local Ministry for Natural Resources said on Sunday (December 3). According to a statement by the Caspian Nature Preserve Center, the creatures likely died about two weeks before being washed ashore and no external signs indicating a violent cause of death had been found.