The whale spat up five plastic bags shortly before dying, another 80 bags were found in its stomach Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

Liberal Studies: Beloved Hong Kong bull Billy found dead with stomach full of plastic bags [February 20, 2019] The autopsy he conducted revealed more than 88 pounds of waste in the young whale ...

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When an emaciated dwarf sperm whale calf washed ashore on a Florida beach last month, officials brought the distressed mammal to veterinarians for further examination. On Thursday, the St. Johns ...

A short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) became the latest marine mammal to fall victim to plastic pollution ...

A necropsy revealed 40 kilograms of plastic waste in the whale’s stomach, made up of shopping bags, banana plantation bags and 16 rice sacks. It had died of starvation and dehydration ...

North Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding team members and volunteers from NC Aquariums, NC Maritime Museum/Bonehenge Whale Center ... a large plastic bag remnant with a knot in the center in ...