By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist | September 10, 2013
Officials with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk, apparently all within a 24-hour period, in rural New Mexico.
The elk were found Aug. 27 on a 75,000-acre ranch north of the city of Las Vegas.
Livestock deaths, by themselves, are not unusual — there are many things that can fell large animals, including predators, poachers, a natural or man-made toxin, disease, drought, heat, starvation, and even lightning.
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