Plastic found inside beached whales
30 March 2016 - 02:22
A post-mortem conducted on 13 beached sperm whales - found ashore near the town of Toenning in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, found their stomachs were filled with plastic. This plastic included a 13m fisherman's net and a 70cm piece of plastic from a car. But scientists believed the whales did not die because they ingested plastic, but rather that their hearts failed due to starvation.
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