Post-Mortem On Thirteen Beached Sperm Whales Found Their Stomachs Full Of Plastic

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A pod of sperm whales swimming off the coast of Sri Lanka. Shane Gross/Shutterstock

A post-mortem on 13 sperm whales that washed ashore near the town of Toenning in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, found plastic in their stomachs. The whales likely died of cardiac and circulatory failure from starvation, however, not via the rubbish in their intestines.