The ocean is an incredible yet nerve-wracking world unto itself. Its unexplored depths are home to creatures still unknown to ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...

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Krill are a keystone species in the Antarctic, but their population is moving further south due to climate change.

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...

The findings show whales carry out the longest known transport of nourishment by mammals on the planet. Researchers found that the whales had brought more nitrogen from their feeding grounds than ...