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 ...

small lightweight plastic," said Dr Hardesty. "We think that small turtles are less selective in what they eat than large adults who eat sea grass and crustaceans, the young turtles are out in the ...

MUROTO, Kochi Prefecture--An endangered leatherback sea turtle found dead in a fishing net in local waters here in June had swallowed two plastic bags, an autopsy of its stomach contents showed.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your ... time to determine what they can and cannot eat. Turtle species are diverse, and so are ...