Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

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

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

The tribe applied for the permit under regulations NOAA Fisheries issued on June 13, 2024, granting the tribe’s request for a limited waiver under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) to hunt the ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...