large, sooty brown seabirds that nest on islands off the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, eat more plastic as a proportion of their body mass than any other marine animal, researchers say ...
MORE: 'Incredibly rare' gray whale spotted 200 years after extinction from the Atlantic A necropsy (animal autopsy) on the whale found a large plastic bag in its main stomach with associated ...
Per the organization, an animal autopsy later showed that the animal had "a large plastic bag in its main stomach with associated ulcers." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...