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

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

Baleen, which is made of the same stuff as fingernails, is used to sift its food out of the water. Most populations of blue whales famously eat krill, a tiny crustacean that resembles a shrimp and is ...

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

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

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...

They are also the foundation of a healthy ocean - part of a virtuous cycle: Whales eat krill, krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ice, and those plants absorb planet-warming carbon as ...

Krill are food for some of the largest animals on the planet - including giant whales that migrate thousands of kilometres, to Antarctica, to feed on them. They are also the foundation of a healthy ...