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 & ...
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 ...
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 ...
Today, a blue whale is 10 THOUSAND times more massive than ... sparking concentrated swarms of plankton and plankton-seeking krill. It was an all-you-can-eat buffet for the baleen whales, who ...
The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales, which have baleen plates, feed by taking huge mouthfuls of water and food. They ...
It was the first ever whale death recorded in the fishery. Pressure on krill stocks is building as a result of surging ... a little bit out of the blue, I think it could create a better atmosphere for ...
Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...