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Rhoeri@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination

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Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination

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Rhoeri@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago
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A team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back as the 1970s.
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    In the first instance, we’d probably presume it to be a contamination.

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      But then we find out that they had Lego.

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        well duh, that’s how they built the pyramids

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