The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet. That's right: The biggest whale ...

A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic sea creatures from miles above. They ...

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

Blue whales lunge through large swarms of krill with their mouths open, taking in more food in one mouthful than any other animal on Earth. Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The ...

Caption A blue whale, the largest vertebrate animal ever in the history of life, engulfs krill off the coast of California. Photograph authorized under National Marine Fisheries Service permit ...

blue whales feed almost exclusively on krill - small, shrimp-like crustaceans that grow to about six centimetres. These tiny animals are found in all of Earth's oceans, swimming in massive swarms, ...