Sea turtles are one example of a creature that regularly consumes plastic trash for dinner, and a new study offers up new answers as to why revealing that they can mistake the smell of plastic for ...

We know that plastic pollution continues to build up in the ocean at alarming rates, and we know this poses a risk to the creatures that call it home, but scientists continue to dive into the ...

Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap. Frontiers in Marine Science , 2021; 8 DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.699521 Cite This Page : ...

“This ‘olfactory trap’ might help explain why sea turtles ingest and become entangled in plastic so frequently,” says Joseph Pfaller, a biologist from the University of Florida who worked ...

Small juvenile sea turtles from the Pacific and Indian Oceans have a very high occurrence of ingested plastic, a new study shows. The life cycle of marine turtles might "trap" juvenile turtles in ...

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. The turtle writhes in agony, bleeding profusely. For ...

Even if all plastic pollution into the ocean halted tomorrow, “I think it would be at least a quarter of a millennium” before a sea turtle could even hope to be born into a plastic-free life ...

The hawksbill sea turtle, a critically endangered species, was tangled in plastic with a flipper severed. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ENVIRONMENT ...

Plastic creates ‘evolutionary trap’ for sea turtles, study suggests ‘Hatchlings generally contained fragments up to about 5mm to 10mm in length, and particle sizes went up along with the ...