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From getting stuck in nets to eating plastic that they think is food, creatures worldwide are dying from material we made.

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They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s how a group of persistent scientists unlocked the secrets to bringing them ...