eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say: In one large population, 90 percent of the fledglings had already ingested some. A plastic shard ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

Fortunately, the mealworm could provide a more efficient and eco-friendly alternative to traditional recycling methods, which ...

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Instead, when they start eating plastic, the bacteria in their guts might change to ... as well as evaluating the safety of ...

“I’ve heard numerous times that animals just eat plastic because they don’t know any better,” says Savoca. “What this type of research shows is that there are really complex evolutionary ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent of plastic for food. Thus, a plastic bag floating in the sea not only looks like a ...

They say the length of an animal can be used to estimate how ... said it was difficult to figure out how much plastic they could be eating. "This information gives us a way to start measuring ...