Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a jellyfish snack, but it gives off a similar odour. This "olfactory trap" might help explain why sea turtles are prone to eating and ...
fragments of fishing rope and carrier bags for sea grass, scientists say Green turtles are eating plastic which looks like their diet of sea grass, researchers say. Black bin bags, fragments of ...
Bob was strangling, choking, and looking on the verge of death. The real cause behind his discomfort was revealed only 3 ...
They found that almost all of them had ingested plastic in large quantities. Deceased post-hatchling loggerhead sea turtle next to plastic pieces found in its stomach and intestines. Gumbo Limbo ...
A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.
On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion ...
Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...
Over 700 marine species, including half of the world’s cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), all of its sea turtles and a third of its seabirds, are known to ingest plastic. When animals eat ...
Dr Kanga, however, says the number of sea turtles has been declining due to climate change affecting their ecology, plastic pollution, fishermen destroying their nests, and increased human ...
Stormwater run-off and other human activities contribute to eutrophication. 18. Sea turtles eat a lot of plastic. Plastic debris in the ocean poses a significant threat to sea turtles, with a 2013 ...
Ailing or dead sea turtles regularly turn up on the beaches here ... but “not a whole lot is known about plastic ingestion by species in the Gulf of Mexico. Are our turtles eating plastic? Is it bad ...