Earlier research posited that blue whales excrete nitrogen and carbon ... “We were really shocked by how much copper was in the whale poop. We initially thought, ‘oh, no, is the whale poop ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

To investigate what role whale poop may have played in this ecosystem, the study analyzed five stool samples. Two samples were from humpback whales in the Southern Ocean and three were from blue ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...