Off the east coast of China, researchers discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a jellyfish-like species called a ...

Sea turtles, for example, often mistake flimsy, clear plastic bags for jellyfish. Other marine animals, including fish, gobble bits of rice-sized micro plastics broken down by sunlight and wave ...

They're small, translucent and don't have any scales ... Microplastics are even tinier pieces of plastic which scientists have shown are infiltrating every level of the ocean.

52 percent of the animals tested contained microplastics. "Our study highlights how far plastic pollution travels, and how it contaminates every part of marine ecosystems. Given the level of pollution ...

Marine animals cannot digest debris and often ... in beach sediments and on the seafloor. However, what is clear is that plastic waste can be transported far and wide by currents and weather ...