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

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Vermont describes how whales can transport essential nutrients like nitrogen ...

Baby whale sharks remain one of the biggest mysteries in marine science, but new research suggests their birthplaces may be ...

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

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

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

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

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