“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

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A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia Island. Once lodged in the Southern Weddell Sea for decades, ...

A lack of this vital nutrient is one of the world's leading causes of disability – but exactly when it becomes a problem, and ...

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled ...

Hundreds of years ago, Poh said the sounds of different bird species’ voices would loudly fill the air. Though he shared his passion for science, on a more personal note, he added, “It is sad to visit ...

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

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Whales are not just big, they're a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

“Recently, we demonstrated how much commercial whaling impacted nutrient recycling by whales in their feeding grounds, and this work augments our understanding of how tropical systems are also ...