Life Baleen whales eat three times more krill than we thought. Baleen whales are the largest animals on Earth, and they are even hungrier than we had assumed, which has huge implications for ...

While krill may be small to look at, these shrimp-like crustaceans play an outsized role in the global food web. They support the diets of several whale species, including the largest animals to ...

Through eating krill and then defecating, whales release iron locked within krill back into the water, making that iron available to phytoplankton, which need it to survive. “Think of these large ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed. This behemoth can reach up to 110 feet long and weigh over 160 tons. Almost ...

By eating, digesting, and disposing of krill, whales take iron from deep in the ocean and bring it to the surface with their floating feces, making it usable for tiny phytoplankton, krill’s main ...

Pre-whaling populations of whales would annually eat double the total amount of Antarctic krill that exists in the Southern Ocean today, according to the new report's calculations. Sponsor Message ...

A new study finds that baleen whales, including blue and humpback whales, eat on average three times as much krill and other food as previously thought, and more food in means more poop out.

The team discovered that baleen whales eat way more than previously estimated -- three times more. That's a lot of filtered krill ending up in whale stomachs, which means even more whale poop ...

If whales eat significantly more than previously thought, then they also poop more. Whale poop is serious business: A single blue whale eats around 16 metric tons of krill a day, and ejects ...

Whales unlock that iron when they eat, and release it when they poop. The defecated iron then stimulates the growth of tiny phytoplankton, which in turn feed the krill, which in turn feed the ...

What do blue whales eat? Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water ...