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Dead Whale Washes Up with Nothing but Plastic in Stomach

  • mmrtcanes
  • Apr 8, 2019
  • 1 min read

A Cuvier's beaked whale recently washed up in the Philippines, weak and vomiting blood. Within a few hours the whale was dead, and a necropsy showed that the whale's entire stomach was so compacted with plastic it was "hard as a baseball." Click here to read the article to its entirety.

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