Period. Bar none,” Savoca says, referring to straws, water bottles, and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported—so far—to have eaten or become entangled in plastic.

The survey released on Thursday examines 1,792 examples of marine animals that became entangled in plastic or that had swallowed it. Forty species studied in Oceana's report are listened as ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of parasitic crustacean that attaches itself to black coral, Earth.com reported. The ...

Scientists have new evidence to explain why plastic is dangerous to sea turtles: the animals mistake the scent ... are prone to eating and getting entangled in plastic, say US researchers.

MIDDLETOWN — A Middletown interdisciplinary artist who creates life-size portraits of animal species affected ... Her show, "Entangled & Ingested," can be seen in both the Pegasus Gallery ...

"These acoustic signatures are similar, and this might be a reason that these animals are driven to consume plastic instead of ... those are things that whales get entangled with, too. So we don't ...

Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it. Endangered wildlife like Hawaiian monk seals and Pacific ...