The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water to the ... were not included in the primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

Due to their size, whales redistribute nutrients in different areas of the ocean and increase ocean productivity in ways no ...