A recent theory proposes that whales weren’t just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have ...

"The hypothesis is that the whales were actually adding nutrients to the ecosystem that these phytoplankton were able to use, so they would bloom more and then the krill could eat them," Bundy said.

Humpback whales have no interest in eating humans, and their lack of teeth means they cannot bite or chew. When they feed, they lunge at schools of fish or krill with wide open mouths, often ...

“The hypothesis is that the whales were actually adding nutrients to the ecosystem that these phytoplankton were able to use, so they would bloom more and then the krill could eat them,” Bundy said.

and then realising that it doesn’t eat humans’,” Pirotta said. Pirotta said baleen whales such as humpbacks open their jaws very wide to scoop up as much fish and krill as possible and then ...

Whales are the biggest krill predators in South Georgia, but researchers still don’t know exactly how much krill they eat or how their feeding habits change through the seasons. Surveys show ...

They are also the foundation of a healthy ocean - part of a virtuous cycle: Whales eat krill, krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ice, and those plants absorb planet-warming carbon as ...

A kayaker off the coast of Chile recently experienced a terrifying moment that seems straight out of a nature documentary—a ...

“The headline should be changed to ‘Person spends a brief amount of time in a whale’s mouth due to a whale just doing its own thing, and then realising that it doesn’t eat humans ...