A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Victoria Gill/BBC The fluke of a humpback whale, which is feeding on krill in Antarctica Revealing climate secrets hidden inside the bodies of whales Ozone hole: Why Antarctic wildlife is being ...

“This is a ground-breaking effort to develop a new way to monitor krill swarms at the surface where they are known to occur in huge patches that are important feeding grounds for whales and ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales and ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales ...