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There’s a Great Whale Urine Highway That Moves Nutrients Across Oceans“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...
When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...
New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...
Today’s largest open ocean dead zone, located in the eastern Pacific Ocean, emerged eight million years ago as a result of increasing nutrient content in the ocean, an international team of scientists ...
Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...
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