This canine-human success story is another sign of the growing use of dogs in conservation projects. Woman follows dog on ...

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, ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

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

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 ...