NPR shared the story of Jack, a blue heeler mix, and Collette Yee, a bounder, in tracking down elusive whale poop while on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both blue whales and humpbacks were depleted from hunting ... Seabirds transport nitrogen and phosphorus from the ocean to the land in their poop, increasing the density of plants on islands. Animals ...

Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological ... with some species like Antarctic blue whales reduced by 99 percent. By restoring these populations, we can restore the planet ...

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 think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

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