Why do ocean animals eat plastic? Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know. By Natasha Daly. December 5, 2019 ...

Animals Eat Ocean Plastic Because it Smells Like Food. A new study sheds light on why so many seabirds, fish, whales, and other critters are gobbling up so much marine plastic debris.

Woodall's work indicates there's reason to believe that the ocean floor may be a significant repository for marine plastic. She and an international group of researchers extracted pieces of ...

“Animals usually have a reason for the decisions they make. If we want to truly understand why animals are eating plastic in the ocean, we have to think about how animals find food.” Many kinds of ...

Why do sea turtles eat plastic? The smell. JoAnna Wendel Plastic is everywhere, even in the deepest depths of the ocean. We know sea turtles, and other marine animals, eat it, but experts aren’t ...

Tiny plastic particles have been found in the deep ocean — and animals are eating them At depths of 200 to 600 meters, the concentration of plastic particles was found to be roughly four times ...

Although sea turtles have been chomping down on plastic bags for years, scientists didn’t know why – until now. Plastic bags may smell like a tasty treat because of the bacteria and algae that ...

The fact that sea animals and birds eat floating plastic has long puzzled biologists. Their best guess was that it looks like food. But the new evidence suggests that for a lot of birds, plastic ...

According to a 2018 estimate from EarthDay.org, 8 million metric tons of plastic wind up in the ocean every year, including 236,000 tons of microplastics, pieces that break down that are smaller ...

A photo of a baby loggerhead sea turtle that died after eating 104 pieces of plastic went viral on Facebook this week. The photo was posted by the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, Florida ...

With more than 8 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean each year, according to the 2015 study in Science, the amount of plastics in land creatures could add up.