A research team led by Christine Figgener (Texas A&M University) found a male olive ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica. He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in...

2015年8月17日 · In a cringe-inducing video that's gone viral, a team of scientists spent nearly ten minutes pulling a plastic straw from the nostril of an olive ridley sea turtle. At first, "it looked like a...

2018年7月17日 · Her team discovered the male turtle off the coast of Costa Rica while collecting parasites living on the sea creatures. In the video, visiting researcher Nathan Robinson uses pliers to slowly...

2024年4月9日 · Bloody and in pain, when a plastic straw became lodged in the nostril of a turtle, a video showing its removal shook the world – sparking a movement to rid the world of plastic straws

2015年11月18日 · While examining one male turtle, she and her companions found a long plastic straw lodged in the turtle’s nostril. Her video of the team extracting the straw has received more than 5.5 million views on YouTube. This is the story behind that video.

Her research team was capturing turtles off the Pacific coast when they found a turtle with something encrusted in its nose that turned out to be a plastic drinking straw. Visiting researcher Dr. Nathan Robinson, who studied ectobionts on sea turtles at that time, successfully removed the plastic straw and Figgener uploaded the video to YouTube ...

2023年5月22日 · In 2015, a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose took over the internet. It launched a movement to eliminate plastic straws and raised awareness of plastic pollution in the ocean. Did any of it make a difference, or was it just another viral moment of shared but shallow outrage? Let’s see how the sea turtles are doing now. Sea Straws

2024年5月1日 · The team spotted an unusual obstruction in a turtle’s nose, and upon closer examination, it turned out to be a common plastic straw. The removal process, painstaking and bloody, was filmed by Figgener.

Page of Dr. Christine Figgener, the marine biologist and author that filmed the viral sea turtle-straw video. Christine talks about saving sea turtles and fighting ocean plastic pollution, her research, conservation, and science communication.

The surprising discovery of a plastic straw lodged into the nose of an olive ridley turtle is a single example of the multitude of effects that plastic debris can have on marine life. While the impact of the straw was not immediately fatal, it evidently blocked the nasal passage of the turtle and detrimentally affected the turtle’s capacity ...