This dead loggerhead ingested more than 100 pieces of plastic it mistook for food. Photo provided by Gumbo Limbo
By Margie Plunkett
The tiny sea turtle, the size of the palm of your hand, had died after being washed back to shore this nesting season.
Members of the Marine Animal Rescue Society wrestle with the body
of a deep-water beaked whale that had beached itself in Gulf Stream.
Michelle Quigley/The Coastal Star
By Willie Howard
A deep-water beaked whale beached itself in Gulf Stream on S
A dead sperm whale, estimated to weigh more than 15 tons, washed ashore Jan. 10
at Spanish River Park. Boca Raton Ocean Rescue Capt. Tim Fry wraps a strap
around the whale’s tail so it can be pulled onto the beach for a necropsy.
Photo by Tim Stepi
