A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

Researchers found that whale feces contain iron and non-toxic copper, essential nutrients for ocean ecosystems. The study ...

A blue whale photographed in September 2010.NOAA The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities ... trace metals in what’s commonly known as whale poop, was published in January in Communications Earth ...

These animals deposit nutrients and plant seeds from lower elevations in their poop onto deglaciated ground, and then the seeds germinate ... “Current anthropogenic climate change is probably the most ...