Study finds that sea turtles might be eating plastic because it smells like food

Mongabay
Mar 18, 2020, 5:03 pm250 pts
In late 2018, researchers announced that they had found synthetic particles like microplastics in the intestinal tracts of every single sea turtle they’d studied in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Mediteranean Sea. New research might help to explain why turtles are consuming plastic in the first…

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