On a boat off Costa Rica, a biologist uses pliers from a Swiss army knife to try to extract a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nostril ... long straw from the creature’s nose.

Some of the world's deepest-living sea creatures have been feeding on plastic for at least 40 years, according to new research. Scientists examined archived specimens of animals collected more ...

The miniature crustacean has won hearts online, with the video going viral on social media. The clip has amassed some 9.1 ...

Q. I enjoy learning about bizarre animals like the terrestrial one you recently wrote about called a hammerhead worm. With ...

An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly effect on wildlife. Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other ...

The diver revealed that he and his team found the octopus 20 meters below sea level. After spotting the octopus in a cup, he was determined to replace the creature’s plastic home with a real one.

As detailed by The Phuket News, officers from the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources were called to the scene after a juvenile green sea turtle was found dead at Mai Khao Beach, a spot known ...

Many of the sea creatures we love – birds, fish, turtles and whales – die because of the plastic that’s suffocating our seas. Plastic is choking our oceans. Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...

But with so much plastic around, Some of it, unfortunately, ends up in the sea. The sea creatures can confuse those colourful plastics with a tasty meal, or even get trapped in plastic waste.