It's too hot to roast mussels on the west coast of Canada alive

According to CNN reported on the 10th, Christopher Harry, a professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Canada, found countless mussels on the coast near vancouver on the same day with their mouths open and emitting a putrid odor. Mussels on the west coast of Canada were roasted alive because it was too hot

Harry studies how climate change affects the ecology of the rocky coast, which is home to mussels, clams and starfish. He traveled to the sea to learn about the effects of the heat on these creatures, where he lived on June 26-28, where he found a large number of mussels dead, "and I smelled the smell before I got to the beach."

Mussels usually grow on coastal reefs and survive exposure to air and sunlight at low tide. Still, Harry said, once temperatures exceed 37.7 degrees Celsius, mussels exposed to the air struggle to survive. According to CNN, the maximum temperature in downtown Vancouver was 37 degrees Celsius on June 26 and 38.6 degrees Celsius on June 28. Measurements by Harry and the students showed that the surface temperature of the local beach reached a maximum of 51.7 degrees Celsius. Harry said that this summer, the nearby sea generally recedes at the highest tide during the day, and it is difficult for mussels to hold out until the sea rises again.

Harry said that between 50 and 100 mussels survive in palm-sized places, and there are many mussels living on more than 6,000 kilometers of the local coastline. He initially estimated that about 1 billion mussels and other marine life in the Salish Sea near Vancouver had died as a result of the heat. (Picture is an infographic)

Source: Xinhua Net