“While these birds can look healthy on the outside, they’re not doing well on the inside.” “While these birds can look healthy on the outside, they’re not doing well on the inside,” Dr. Alex Bond, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flesh-footed shearwater – ardenna carneipes – is the species that suffers from plasticosis. (Getty Images) Seabirds are falling ...

A new disease has been described in seabirds, but it might just be the tip of the iceberg. Rather than being caused by viruses or bacteria, "plasticosis" is caused by small pieces of plastic which ...