Editor's note: The photos in this story may be disturbing to some readers. A museum in the Philippines made a startling discovery when working to determine how a whale died recently. The D' Bone ...
BANGKOK — Some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish weighing 17 pounds were found in the stomach of a whale that died in Thailand after a five-day effort to save it, a marine official said on Sunday.
(CNN) -- A short-fin male pilot whale has died in Southern Thailand after ingesting more than 17 pounds of plastic bags and packaging, a sobering casualty of the waste littering the world's oceans.