What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

Dana Bloch pictured with a bottle of whale feces collected for her research. (Courtesy Dana Bloch) Humpback whales could be growing their own food supply and fighting climate change in a very unusual ...

Whales are massive reservoirs of carbon and they are key to the health of our oceans. But there are fewer whales — and less whale poop — in the ocean today than before industrial whaling took off.

In this corner, weighing up to 190 metric tons, is the blue whale. This behemoth still swimming in Earth’s oceans is the current titleholder for the heaviest animal to ever exist — living or dead. And ...

A dog-and-human partnership is taking their act out to sea with remarkable results. NPR shared the story of Jack, a blue heeler mix, and Collette Yee, a bounder, in tracking down elusive whale poop ...

Marine biologists unravel how whales and their poop trap carbon and feed the ocean. Whales are massive reservoirs of carbon and they are key to the health of our oceans. But there are fewer whales — ...