Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

One moment they were paddling across calm ocean waters, and the next, they were plunged into darkness — inside a humpback ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... This transfer constitutes the largest movement of nitrogen and carbon ever documented by animals ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.