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 ...

The reptiles, an endangered species, were incapacitated when the water temperature plummeted after a rare winter storm hit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within these waters, turtles love to eat jellyfish ... Bob became the poster of how plastic pollution is endangering the lives of sea turtles. “The ocean is not safe for turtles,” the aquarium ...

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.

For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags. Fish eat thousands of tons of plastic a year, transferring it up the food chain to ...

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 ...

Loggerhead turtles are one of the seven species of sea turtles found worldwide ... in this region to understand how much plastic they’re eating and what types. How did the team conduct their ...

Plastic fills our dumps, homes and oceans. Plastic pollution takes a huge toll on wildlife: More than 700 species, including sea turtles, fish and whales, eat plastic or get tangled up in it. Plastic ...