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.

Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale entangled in ropes at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty ...

On the coast of Sausalito, the Marine Mammal Center regularly rehabilitates injured animals, including those entangled in plastic nets and fishing lines. The center has admitted more than 20,000 ...

"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 ...

Entanglements with fishing gear, such as mooring lines and nets, are a constant hazard to marine animals. Numbers of whales lose their lives after becoming entangled and being unable to free ...

Marine biologists diving in the Gulf of Thailand were thrilled in 2023 to rediscover several colonies of a rare type of ocean ...