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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 ...

New research reveals that some sea turtles confuse the smell of plastic with the smell of food. A range of different marine creatures interact with the vast amount of plastic waste that ends up in the ...

To a sea turtle, plastic debris might smell like dinner. As the plastic detritus of modern human life washes into oceans, marine creatures of all kinds interact with and sometimes eat it (SN: 11/13/19 ...

One of the real and dangerous consequences of plastic waste making its way into ocean is the increasing threat it poses to marine life. Sea turtles are one example of a creature that regularly consume ...

We know there is a lot of plastic in the ocean, and that turtles (and other endangered species) are eating it. It is not uncommon to find stranded dead turtles with guts full of plastic. But we ...

A lot of attention has been paid to how ingesting plastic impacts seabirds, fish and sea turtles in recent years. It’s logical to assume that nomming on bits of plastic is detrimental, but researchers ...