How Much Plastic Can Kill a Sea Turtle? A New Study Has Answers.

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...
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Why Some Animals Play Dead and What it Means

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Let’s focus on helping animals who are still alive rather than fussing over carcasses

To the editor: As billions of animals every year are raised under hideous circumstances and killed with similar lack of care, I’m frustrated by the fuss over one man’s treatment of an already dead sea ...

Here’s what will happen to the massive sperm whale that washed up dead on Nantucket

The 50-foot-long dead sperm whale that washed up Sunday on Nantucket will be taken back to sea to decompose for safety ...

How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers

Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers examined data to find out how much it takes. The answer: ...
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The Lethal Dose of Plastic for Seabirds and Marine Animals Is far Smaller Than Anyone Expected

Plastic found inside a dead black-footed albatross. Image by Dan Clark /USFWS. New research has found that even small amounts ...

3,000 cows trapped at sea for 58 DAYS on stinking, corpse-filled & fly-infested ship that can’t dock due to RED TAPE

THOUSANDS of pregnant cows are trapped on a hot, stinking ship that has been stuck at sea for two months after being blocked ...

New study finds that ingesting even small amounts of plastic can be fatal for marine animals

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...
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Animals That Mourn the Dead and Hold Grieving Rituals

Humans aren’t the only species that mourn their dead. Mother chimpanzees have been observed carrying their dead babies for months, continuing to groom them during this time. Giraffes, crows, and ...