Whales of all shapes and sizes play a significant role in the health of marine ecosystems. About 50% of the air humans breathe is produced by the ocean, thanks to phytoplankton and whale waste. The ...

Life as we know it wouldn’t be what is today without a lot of poop. In fact, Earth may have never hosted any life at all ...

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 ...

Bigger than any dinosaur that ever existed, blue whales can reach 110 feet long and weigh up to 190 tons. These giants, alongside other cetacean species like humpback and grey whales, are part of a ...

'Whale pump' boosts ocean productivity and channels carbon into deep sea for long-term storage, say marine scientists 'We have this huge gentle giant, basically, that is providing all these ecosystem ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s large whale population. The ...