The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

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

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 ...