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

Antarctic krill swimming between the Southern Ocean's surface and seafloor depths, make a "surprisingly small" contribution to the carbon export "highway" compared to their fast-sinking feces, ...

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

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

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

Chase, probe, embrace, flex, push. It’s probably too much information, but that is how krill mate.The behavior was recorded on ...

A team of scientists have been using the colour of seawater to help count tiny Antarctic sea creatures from miles above. They ...

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

Rod Downie, chief polar adviser at WWF-UK, said: “Antarctic krill are the superheroes of the Southern Ocean. These tiny, unsung heroes are the beating heart of the Southern Ocean, sustaining inc ...

Krill are the centre of the Southern Ocean food web above the seabed, sustaining penguins, seals and the world’s largest animals, including blue whales. These tiny creatures are also climate heroes, ...

Krill populations dropped, too, and neither population has yet recovered. A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment. Nutrients that whales excreted may ...

Krill are just a few centimetres long fully grown, but are one of the most abundant animals on Earth Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny ...