Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Ocean currents and upwellings also transport ... precipitously over the last few centuries, the great whale conveyor belt has weakened. The nutrient transport numbers — by the tons — might ...

The “conveyor belt” is not just made up of urine ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.” This research also highlights the potential ecological ...