Eurythenes plasticus

Eurythenes plasticus

Eurythenes plasticus

 

Earth’s newest species

deep from Mariana Trench

ingests our plastics.

 

 

PET or polyethylene terephthalate plastic was found in the digestive tract of this newly (2020) described species discovered in 2014 from deep in the Mariana Trench.

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