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Caption: Billions of mussels died in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay during the summer of 2001 due to hypoxia, or oxygen depletion. Pictured here are the shells of thousands of dead mussels along a beach on Prudence Island, located in the central bay.
Credit: Credit: Jon Witman/Brown University
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