Editor's note: The photos in this story may be disturbing to some readers. A museum in the Philippines made a startling discovery when working to determine how a whale died recently. The D' Bone ...

BANGKOK — Some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish weighing 17 pounds were found in the stomach of a whale that died in Thailand after a five-day effort to save it, a marine official said on Sunday.

(CNN) -- A short-fin male pilot whale has died in Southern Thailand after ingesting more than 17 pounds of plastic bags and packaging, a sobering casualty of the waste littering the world's oceans.

It's one of the known problems with plastic pollution: Marine animals like seals and whales keep turning up dead with their stomachs full of plastic bags and deflated Mylar balloons, having eaten ...

A young whale whose carcass washed up in the Philippines died of "dehydration and starvation" after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists have found. Marine biologist and ...

The young female calf was still nursing at the time of her death, according to those that performed the animal's necropsy Julia Moore is a TV Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Thailand remains one of the world's worst polluters, with government initiatives to convince people to use less plastic largely failing, they said. The whale was discovered in a canal in the southern ...

MILAN (AP) — An 8-meter (26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly, prompting the World Wildlife Foundation to sound an alarm Monday over ...

Plastic pollution is worse because of global warming, with killer whales and sharks most vulnerable, new research warns. Increased toxicity from waste plastic in a warmer climate is highly likely to ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

Placed on six metal pillars, the artwork aims to draw people's attention to the importance of environmental protection and recycling, its creator Valeriy Korshunov said on Wednesday (September 15). It ...

Editor's note: The photos in this story may be disturbing to some readers. A museum in the Philippines made a startling discovery when working to determine how a whale died recently. The D' Bone ...