Earlier research posited that blue whales excrete nitrogen and carbon ... “We were really shocked by how much copper was in ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

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

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

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 ...

When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water to the ... Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included in ...