The push against single-use plastic has some emotive mascots, including the iconic turtle with a straw in its nose. The working hypothesis about why turtles are so attracted to plastic is that plastic ...

Turtles at risk of death from eating plastic in the ocean may swallow it because they believe it is food. Green turtles are much more likely to consume narrow lengths of plastic which are green, black ...

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Dead sea turtles have been discovered with a vast array of plastic waste inside their bellies, with one unlucky reptile having swallowed a rubber witch's finger. Of a total of 135 loggerhead turtles ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ingested plastic can be deadly. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Two baseballs for a ...

Spanish researchers have confirmed for the first time loggerhead sea turtles have a high concentration of plastic in their muscle tissue. The effects of plastic waste in the oceans are widely reported ...

Turtles can mistake black bin bags, 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.

The plastic ingested by the turtles was mostly green, clear or black (Picture: PA) Green turtles are ingesting bits of plastic that most resemble their natural diet, new research has revealed.