Researchers withdrew work allegedly documenting the first goblin shark in the Mediterranean Sea, after others pointed out suspiciously toy-like features. reading time 4 minutes A controversy in the ...
St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of ...
A deep-sea drama is unfolding in the world of shark science. An exciting scientific record of a rare species in a new place might actually just be a photo of a plastic toy. Through published ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than $1 million from the United States to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labeled “plastic animal ...
An entangled Steller sea lion enters the water after being darted with a sedative during a rescue mission with UC Davis' SeaDoc Society. (Bob Frield) When a big male Steller sea lion was spotted near ...
Almost 1,800 marine animals ate or were caught up in plastic trash in the last decade, according to a new report that has compiled data on U.S. strandings. Among the hardest-hit creatures were sea ...
A new report examines how plastic waste affects marine wildlife. By Catrin Einhorn How severely the world’s plastic waste crisis is affecting marine wildlife is not fully understood, despite decades ...