NASA investigating if SPACE STORMS causing strange animal behaviour

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NASA investigating if SPACE STORMS causing strange animal behaviour


 
NASA is investigating whether the storms in space are responsible for mysterious animal phenomenon on Earth.
 
The space agency believe solar storms are causing marine creatures to get lost and then get beached in their hundreds along coastlines around the world.
 
 According to experts, mass strandings can affect anywhere from a few to hundreds of animals at once.
 
 They are more likely to happen in New Zealand, Australia and Cape Cod in the US state of Massachusetts.
 
 NASA describes solar storms as “a variety of eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface. Flares, prominences, sunspots, coronal mass ejections are the common harbingers of solar activity, as are plages and other related phenomena seen at other wavelengths.”
 
 Previously, scientists thought human influences might be responsible, such as underwater sonar equipment.
 
 NASA heliophysicist Antti Pulkkinen – who studies the effects the sun on the solar system – said: "However, these human-made influences do not explain most of the strandings."
 
 She added: “Theories as to the cause include magnetic anomalies and meteorological events, such as extreme tides during a new moon and coastal storms, which are thought to disorient the animals.
 
 “It has been speculated that due to the possible magnetic-field sensing used by these animals to navigate, magnetic anomalies could be at least partially responsible.”
 
 NASA hopes its research will help animal responders get to the scene of a stranding as quick as possible and save more animals.