The face mask found in the feces of a green sea turtle (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

The face mask found in the feces of a green sea turtle

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A healthy diet of a sea turtle would normally consist of jellyfish, seaweeds, seagrass and more, but this turtle ingested wood fragments, gooseneck barnacles and plastic — including a disposable face mask

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Takuya Fukuoka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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