Export bar placed on historic 18th century bust of Scottish MP valued at \u00a33.1m<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “It was really sad and bizarre to see them all washed up and tangled in the seaweed, there were so many,” she said.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was so cold last night that half of them were all frozen and dead.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We did a short swim and took some with us that looked like they still had colour in a bid to save them, I don’t know if it would have done anything but you always have to try in these situations.\n<\/p>\n
\n “A local who has lived near the bay for the last five years said this has only happened once before, it is not a normal sight.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Alasdair O’Dell, a marine biologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban added: “There are a number of factors to consider when events like this occur, so there’s no sure way of knowing what caused it without a thorough investigation.\n<\/p>\n
\n “However, stormy weather and the recent rapid change in temperature could have been contributing factors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mass stranding was first discovered by wild swimmers on Thursday morning at Wardie Bay in Granton. Marine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115866615382175504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}