Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

For perspective, fin whales produce more than 250 gallons of urine per day when they are feeding, a study in Iceland suggests ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their urine—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii.

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals. While their ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

According to NOAA, some humpback whales in the Northern Pacific migrate roughly 3,000 miles from Alaska to feed and then to Hawai ... the team monitored songs from blue, fin, and humpback ...

The waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off central California are rich feeding grounds for blue, fin and humpback whales that cruise the coast during their annual migrations.