Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill ...

“A key player in the biological carbon pump is the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, whose faecal pellets, moults and ...

For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, ...

They might be small, but they're certainly mighty: krill play a major role in carbon sequestering in oceans across the world.

According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...

In 2018–2019, researchers of Wageningen Marine Research joined the Japanese research vessel Kaiyo-maru (Fisheries Agency ...

A new study based on careful analysis of 90 years of scientific catch data from the South Atlantic Ocean shows that the geographic distribution of Antarctic krill has contracted nearly 300 miles ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research.

They are nature's heroes, helping to transport carbon out of the atmosphere and store it deep inside the ocean. Krill are best known for the key role they play in Southern Ocean ecosystems.