Southern right whales might be eating a more diverse diet than previously thought, an adaptation that scientists hope will ...

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New research indicates southern right whales can adjust their diet when preferred food sources become scarce. Studying whale ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Rod Keogh has been storing whale poo in his freezer for years. "It's hard to find people as interested in it as me," he says. "People expect something six feet long but it's not like that." In fact, ...

Saving endangered baleen whales could boost the carbon storage capacity of the Southern Ocean, suggests a new study of whale faeces. Whale faeces once provided huge quantities of iron to a now anaemic ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s large whale population. The ...

This must be a snorkeler’s worst nightmare! But all animals have to poop somehow and that is as true for whale sharks as for any other species. The bigger the animal, the bigger the poop and whale ...