The penguin poop didn’t only influence krill movements. In another phase of the experiment, researchers noticed the ...

The foul stench of penguin poop sets Antarctic krill on edge. In lab experiments, the mere scent of penguin droppings — or guano — sent krill scrambling for escape, researchers report March 20 in ...

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

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

Both blue whales and humpbacks were depleted from hunting ... Seabirds transport nitrogen and phosphorus from the ocean to ...

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

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...

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 ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

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 ... Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales -- the largest animals to ever live on the Earth -- are not known and were not ...