Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic
Monday, March 9, 2020 - 10:12
in Earth & Climate
Sea turtles around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on March 9 have new evidence to explain why all that plastic is so dangerous for the turtles: they mistake the scent of stinky plastic for food.