Whale in the Philippines dies with 88 pounds of plastic in stomach.
Darrell Blatchley, director of the D' Bone Collector Museum, shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a beaked whale on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on March 16, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.With millions of tons of plastic ending up in the world's oceans every year, it's not unusual for marine wildlife to ingest some of it.
"It was so bad the plastic was beginning calcification," Blatchley said of the process in which calcium builds up in the body and causes tissue to harden.
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