Death by plastic waste
Humanity’s enduring love affair with plastic, a love more pronounced in the Southeast Asian region, has claimed another victim. This time, the victim is so rare that it was once thought to have been extinct 65 million years ago and is known by the moniker “living fossil”. This week, pictures have surfaced of a dead Coelacanth taken by a fisherman in Indonesia in 2016 but only recently shared. Potential cause of death: Lay’s Potato Chips plastic food wrappers around its intestines.