They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes—like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica)—putting on tons of fat, chowing down ...

Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

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

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes (like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica), putting on tons of fat, chowing down on krill and herring. According to recent research, North Pacific ...

Greenpeace’s next campaign is perhaps its most well known: saving the whales. The idea came from Paul Spong, who had studied orca whales and argued that the highly intelligent creatures were ...