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

Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.

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

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet ... so they would bloom more and then the krill could eat them,” Bundy said. Previous research had found significant amounts of major nutrients ...

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 ...

These colossal cetaceans often reach 30 metres in length and can weigh up to 180 tonnes - so they need to eat a lot to keep them swimming. But despite their enormous size, blue whales feed almost ...

with a previous Stanford study finding that whales fertilise the ocean through their droppings, providing nutrients for the phytoplankton that krill eat. A particularly distressing consequence of ...