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

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

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

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

Baleen whales undertake some of the longest migrations of any mammal, traveling thousands of miles between nutrient-rich ...

Nutrient-rich waste Whale excrement contains iron, phosphorus, and nitrogen, which are substances that phytoplankton need to ...

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

Endangered pygmy blue whales dive to depths in the ocean to forage and feed along their migratory path off the Western ...