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 ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

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

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 ...

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.

Whales are not just big, they're a big deal for healthy oceans ... primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...