Mars bar wrappers, McDonald's packaging, face masks and much more plastic waste is being reused by some water-dwelling birds ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...

FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

Coots' nests in Amsterdam are built using discarded plastic, providing a time capsule into the material's use over the past ...

Is the abundance of plastic in Eurasian coot nests necessarily bad? Yes and no, says Hiemstra. Since plastic doesn’t break down, using it means the birds don't have to spend as much time ...

A bald eagle dove repeatedly at a coot, seemingly ignoring the other flocks of birds in the lake. The eagle appeared fixated on the singular, small waterfowl. “He was swooping down and trying to ...

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