Dolphins may be getting Alzheimers from toxic ocean blooms

Dolphins washing up on Floridas shores may be victims of the same kind of brain degeneration seen in humans with Alzheimers disease. Researchers discovered that cyanobacterial toxins-worsened by climate change and nutrient pollution-accumulate in marine food chains, damaging dolphin brains with misfolded proteins and Alzheimers-like pathology.