Bottlenose dolphins probably don't have the greatest breath. It's probably pretty fishy. According to a new study, dolphin's ...

Microplastics are invisible but omnipresent.

Researchers found that air samples taken from the playful marine mammals’ blow holes contained plastic polymer fibers and ...

Around the world, humans and numerous other animals are exposed to tiny particles of plastic contaminants known ... surface over or just above each dolphin's blowhole as it exhaled.

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

A heartbreaking story took place recently in Florida, where beachgoers found a baby whale that had ingested plastic. Would ...

“During these brief permitted health assessments, we held a petri dish or a customized spirometer (which is a device that measures lung function) above the ... looked like plastic based on ...

Microplastics have been found in dolphin breath, suggesting the animals ... both fibres and fragments as well as several types of plastic molecules, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET ...

"Many tragedies from plastic in the ocean go unobserved ... which they initially believed to be a dolphin calf, while visiting Butler Beach in St. Augustine, the St. Johns County (SJC) Beach ...

St. Johns County Beach Services announced that a necropsy of an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf found along the coast of ...

Exhaled breath is collected from a wild bottlenose dolphin during a health assessment ... other animals are exposed to tiny particles of plastic contaminants known as microplastics.

Bottlenose dolphin health assessments were conducted ... Since dolphins and humans inhale similar plastic particles, dolphins may be at risk for the same lung problems. As top predators with ...