The floating object in the humpback whale’s path at first looked like an ocean sunfish, which are roundish and can often be seen lazily floating on the water’s surface.

https://www.pvnews.com/news/does-a-plastic-bag-stuck-on-whale-s-mouth-indicate-more-ocean-trash/article_cc1d44b6-5b4b-11eb-a850-dffd0f5b7f45.html

Almost 1,800 marine animals were killed or injured by ocean plastics over a 10-year period in U.S. coastal waters, according to records compiled by the conservation organization Oceana.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/story/2020-11-19/report-tallies-animals-choked-entangled-in-ocean-plastics?_amp=true

An amateur photographer has captured an image of a young pup lounging next to a glass Starbucks bottle in the midst of the UK grey pup season in what some say highlights the pervasiveness of human rubbish problems around the world.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/viral-image-shows-grey-seal-pup-lounging-with-a-starbucks-bottle/amp.html

If we keep going at this rate, it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050.

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/sea-creatures-choking-plastic-bottled-drink_uk_5de8dbd6e4b0913e6f8ba3a8/

Now another sea creature is discovering the devastating effects of plastic pollution: hermit crabs. Garbage that has washed ashore has killed more than half a million hermit crabs on remote islands.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/plastic-pollution-has-killed-half-a-million-hermit-crabs-that-confused-trash-for-shells/

Whales with stomachs full of plastic have turned up around the world. Here's what we know.

https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/animals/2019/12/whales-eating-plastic-pollution

Researchers on a Scottish island found disturbing items during a necropsy of a juvenile sperm whale: 220 pounds of land and sea debris.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/02/dead-sperm-whale-had-pounds-garbage-its-stomach-including-rope-plastic-gloves/?outputType=amp

A team of researchers from Australia, the U.S., Indonesia and New Zealand has measured the amount of plastics that manta rays and whale sharks are ingesting off the coast of Indonesia. In their paper published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the group describes how they measured the ingestion of plastics by the marine animals.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2019-11-manta-rays-whale-sharks-consuming.amp