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May polystyrene microplastics be ingested by marine organisms, affecting survival, growth and behavior?
World plastic production has increased steadily over the past 50 years, reaching over 350 million tonnes in 2018. Most of the plastic waste ends up in the oceans and it is constituted not only by large plastic
Evolution of aquatic mammals and birds: the present predicts the past
The movement of vertebrates from the water to the land has been considered one of the great evolutionary transformations in history. However of equal evolutionary importance was the re-invasion of the aquatic environment by various groups of
