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 ...

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 ...

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

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales ...

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 ...