Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small team of environmental and ocean scientists in Australia, known as Whale X, may have discovered a way to remove carbon from ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

Beware if you’re in the poop zone! Tourists at SeaWorld San Antonio didn’t expect the orca splash zone to feature a wave of killer whale fecal matter. Audience member Alex Bermudez, who captured the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among all of Earth's massive marine ecosystem, the one creature that elicits both awe and fear is the whale. While there are as ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

The call of nature for whales is very important to the rest of nature, with their urine allowing life to flourish in areas that would otherwise be liquid deserts. The importance of whale feces has ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — Baleen whales are quietly performing an ecological service of global importance. These massive marine ...

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