Whales are not just big, they're a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...
“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...
Whales do more than just swim the seas—they power the ocean's ecosystem. By transporting nutrients from deep waters to the ...
A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...
Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...
In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...
New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...
Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included in the primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean ...