Another Dead Whale Full of Plastic. This Time, in Italy.

[Judi Lynn]

By Kimberly Hickok, Reference Editor | April 1, 2019 01:36pm ET

Yet another whale carcass has washed up with a stomach full of plastic. This time, it was a pregnant female sperm whale with 49 lbs. (22 kilograms) of plastic in her stomach. She washed up on a beach in Porto Cervo, a popular tourist destination in Sardinia, Italy.

Luca Bittau, president of SEAME Sardinia, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect cetaceans in the Mediterranean through research and education, told CNN that the beached mammal's stomach contained plastic bags, fishing nets and lines, and other objects that were too decomposed to identify.

That’s not all that was inside her.

"She was pregnant and had almost certainly aborted before (she) beached," Bittau said. "The fetus was in an advanced state of decomposition." [Whale Album: Giants of the Deep]

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