Earlier research posited that blue whales excrete nitrogen and carbon ... “We were really shocked by how much copper was in ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...