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

This is my 26th summer whale-watching here, and we’ve never seen or heard of there being a blue whale sighting in our area, ...

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

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors ...

"We call it the 'great whale conveyor belt,"" Roman says ... Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales -- the largest animals to ever live on the Earth -- are not known and were not included ...

The waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off central California are rich feeding grounds for blue ... Whales ...

The ocean is home to the largest animals of all-time, the great whales ... To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the ...

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

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...