Food has changed a lot throughout history and old-school recipes are often baffling to modern diners. One historic ice cream ...

The "whale pump hypothesis" claims nutrient-rich whale excrement feeds phytoplankton, a key producer of Earth's oxygen. How whale poo could be making the planet cleaner ...

Whale poop likely plays an important role in fertilizing the cold waters of the North Pacific, too. An estimated 1,500 humpbacks migrate to Southeast Alaska every summer to feed, along with gray ...

SeaWorld’s Orca gave tourists a splash of whale poop. TikTok/alexbermudez506 In a 26-second clip, uploaded on TikTok , the marine mammal is seen swimming in its enclosure and releasing a cloud ...

- [Narrator] Researchers can tell if a whale is pregnant, if it's stressed, and the composition of its diet, all by looking at its poop. And because of what's in it, whale poop may even help cool ...

To investigate what role whale poop may have played in this ecosystem, the study analyzed five stool samples. Two samples were from humpback whales in the Southern Ocean and three were from blue ...

Whale poop contains iron that may have helped fertilize past oceans Date: February 6, 2025 Source: University of Washington Summary: A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Research ...